LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Speed Boat
Mechanical failures Arran (Lamlash) lifeboat crew were mustered on the evening of Sunday July 22, 1984, after Clyde Coastguard had been told that a speedboat was seen to be drifting towards the main channel between Hamilton Rock and...
Brilliant
BTTE, SUSSEX. The Mary Stanford Lifebout was launched at 2 A.M. on the 21st May, in reply to signals of distress shown by a vessel which proved to be the schooner Brilliant, of Fowey, bound from Antwerp to Plymouth, with a cargo of...
The 18Th International Conference
The 18th International Conference Delegates representing 27 different countries were given a very full programme to follow during the 18th International Lifeboat Conference held in the week of the flotilla at the Royal Bath Hotel in...
Category: Meetings
Cover Picture
A night launch of Hoylake's 37ft 6in Rather class lifeboat, Mary Gabriel. Hoylake is one of the RNLI's 23 stations where a lifeboat over ten metres in length is launched by tractor and carriage. The tractor in this picture is the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Books and a Play
EVEN those who know the Life-boat Service will find very much to interest them in How Men are Rescued from the Sea by Patrick Howarth (Routiedge and Kegan Paul, 10s. 6d.), as it des- cribes, briefly and swiftly, all the services which guide,...
Category: Articles
Mr Raymond Baxter the Well Known BBC's Personality Signing Autographs at the Spring Fair Organised By the Rugby Branch of the RNLI at the Benn Memorial Hall
Mr. Raymond Baxter, the well known B.B.C.'s personality, signing autographs at the Spring Fair organised by the Rugby branch of the R.N.L.I. at the Benn Memorial Hall, Rugby, on 15th April, 1972, when £1,504 was raised.
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Category: Photographs
Marietta
On the 20th Feb. this Life-boat again performed most distinguished services in saving life. About 1 A.M. the usual signal of distress summoned the steam-tug GuidingStar, with the Life-boat in. tow, to the bar of the river. A gale of unusual...
(Below) There's Many a Slip on the Way to the Horse's Head! Just One of the Games Some Old Some New Thought Up By Happisburgh Branch to Test the Skills of Those
(Below) There's many a slip on the way to the horse's head! Just one of the games, some old, some new, thought up by Happisburgh branch to test the skills of those attending its fete in May. At the end of the day £218.16 had... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Membership News
RAC/RNLI The RAC has joined forces with the RNLI to promote safety on the road and at sea. As well as publicising a wide range of local, regional, national and business-linked fundraising activities, the RAC is offering RNLI supporters...
Category: Articles