LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Ways of Raising Money
The proprietor of Highfields Hotel, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, recently received a substantial contribution in his life-boat collecting-box from a German visitor.
The German explained that he had been a U-boat commander in the last...
Category: Donations
Brownies, Guides and Rangers Raise £22,000
TEN YEARS AGO the Guide Friendship Fund (GFF) was launched. The first year Brownies, Guides and Rangers in the United Kingdom donated £1,500 to help Guiding in the developing countries.
In 1970 they raised £20,000...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers
The following coxwains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
Category: Awards
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Fig 1: Port engine has been lowered into place in engine room by crane.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gunnaren
On the 19th August the 6,000-ton motor vessel Gunnaren, of Gothenburg, bound home from New York, ran ashore east of the lighthouse on Tarf, Swona Island, in a dense fog. She carried a crew of thirty-five and a general cargo. She sent out a...
Marigold
All hands to the pumps On the night of 22 June 1988 the fishing vessel Marigold tan on to rocks at Polkirt beach, 500 yards from Mevagissey Harbour and was badly holed. An overnight operation by a local boatbuilder, the coastguards and fire...
Life-Boat Services. The Life-Boat Illustration
THE accompanying tabular statement clearly shows the important character of the services rendered by the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
It will be seen that during the year (1862) which has just closed,...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 12.—Mr. W. J. Burden, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Teignmouth Life-Boat Station
THERE has been a Life-boat of the Institution at Teignmouth, in South Devon, for 76 years, and for well over half that time Mr. W. J. Burden (who is one of three honorary Life-boat workers of the same name) has been its Honorary Secretary...
Category: Articles
Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels and Numbers of the Fleets
DURING 1938 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 53 British vessels; forty-five of these services were by the United States, three by Norway, two by Holland, and one each by France, Sweden and...
Category: Services
New Lifeguard Towers Being Installed This Summer (pictured)
For the RNLI, going ‘green’ is not about fl aunting ecoworthiness.
There are sound economic and common-sense principles behind the trial of the PowerEd, a combination mini wind turbine, solar panel and weather sensor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs