LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The surfing tribe – a history of surfing in Britain
The surfing tribe – a history of surfing in Britain
by Roger Mansfield,
edited by Sam Bleakley
and Chris Power
Review by Liz Cook
This is no simple coffee-table beauty,...
Category: Articles
Dry Suit Collection
The Bell Inn in Burwash, East Sussex recently collected £500 to buy dry suits for two Hastings lifeboat crew members.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
R.N.L.B.I. Headquarters' Staff In the War
IN The Life-Boat for November, 1918, it was indicated that in due course an effort would be made to furnish some details regarding the war services ren- dered by members of the Institution's staff in the Great War. At that time —the...
Category: Articles
A New View of the Life-Boat Service
A COPY of a firm's catalogue of tools and machinery has been received ad- dressed to the Institution's " Machinery and Drowning Department.".
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has provided a new Life-boat for this place, the crew having lost confidence in the old boat, consequent on her having upset when in tow. The new one is 34 feet long, 8£ feet wide, and...
Category: Articles
Letters
Abigail revisited Readers of the Winter 2003/04 edition of the Lifeboat may remember a letter from Alan Jones recounting his airlift from the yacht Abigail with a suspected heart attack. He wrote with some embarrassment at eventually being...
Category: Correspondence
No Sea Room—And Other Things
No Sea Room -and other things ROCKS, SHALLOWS or obstructing lines reduced the lifeboats' manoeuvring room in four of the services (described briefly below) for which medals for gallantry were presented at the Royal Festival Hall in May...
Category: Articles
Gopak Ltd
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Saye Bay and Chateau a L'Etoc: Typical Alderney Coastline
Saye Bay and Chateau a L'Etoc: typical Alderney coastline.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rentokil
An admittedly modest quid pro quo You save lives. We save buildings.
Including, we're pleased to say, many R.N.L.I. stations.
We are proud to serve you in our small way-just as you, in your big way,...
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