LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report. 1892
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL, LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Princes' Hall, Piccadilly, on Saturday, 30th day of April, 1892, Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report of the...
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Keeping It In the Family
The RNLI has a long history of family involvement. It is not unusual for several generations of one family to volunteer and many stations see a handful of names turn up time and again in the station history. Happily this tradition does not... - View image in PDF
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Instructions for the Management of Open Boats In Heavy Surfs and Broken Water
IN the 18th Number of this Journal we inserted a Paper on the above subject, compiled in great part from information collected from the boatmen on the coasts of the United Kingdom.
The Committee of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT...
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Services to Foreign Vessels In 1920
IN his address at the Annual Meeting, the Prince of Wales referred to the number of services to foreign vessels performed during 1920, and said that there was " no nation possessing a coast- line and any ships which had not benefited at...
Category: Services
Boxing Day Dip
This incriminating picture of Rab Rice, Larne lifeboat mechanic, and his 'girlfriend' was taken at the East Antrim Boat Club sponsored swim on Boxing Day 1999.
The event saw 23 swimmers from the boat club, local... - View image in PDF
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The Former Lifeboat Ambler at Anchor In Idyllic Condtions In Tonga
The former lifeboat Ambler at anchor in idyllic condtions in Tonga - a far cry from the conditions recalled by former crew member Lew Hardy, below. - View image in PDF
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For the Third Year In Succession Newport Branch
Fonthe third year in succession Newport branch, Gwent, has raised tl ,000 at its annual cocktail party held in the Missions to Seamen on Newport Docks. At the tombola drum, Councillor Roy Morris, Mayor of Newport and president of the branch,... - View image in PDF
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Some Account of the Growth of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution's Fleet Since the Re-Organization of the Society In 1850
THE year prior to the re-organization of this now great Institution marked the lowest state of depression to which " The National Shipwreck Institution," as it was then called, had reached. Its income, derived from subscriptions,...
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Towing Life-Boats In Rough Weather
IN consequence of more than one of the lifeboats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION having upset and broken adrift when in tow, through being to«red without any one on board to steer them, the following Instructions have been...
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