LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Hull Form of the Waveney Is Shown Clearly As the First Uk-Built Boat (44-002)
The hull form of the Waveney is shown clearly as the first UK-built boat (44-002) undergoes her righting trial in October 1966. - View image in PDF
Note the flat sections aft to promote planing.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tributes from the Services.
After only six months of war the Admiralty sent a special letter of thanks to the Institution for the "exemplary spirit ot courage and endurance, in which, without fear or thought of self, the life-boatmen have never spared their...
Category: Articles
Martyn Joyce the Young Son of Loughborough and the District Branch's Publicity Officer David Joyce Raised £28 In Five Weeks Selling Rnli Souvenirs at His School Rot
Martyn Joyce, the young son of Loughborough and the District branch's publicity officer, David Joyce, raised £28 in five weeks selling RNLI souvenirs at his school, Rothley Primary School. Martyn presented the money to Loughborough... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Our Merchant Seamen
THE Committee of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society have published the following additional appeal on behalf of the establishment of an Asylum or Hospital, for aged Mariners at Belvedere, near Gravesend.
A...
Category: Committee
Feature: Launching Saves Lives
The pages of the Lifeboat feature many brave and skilful rescues but it is easy to overlook that, before a lifeboat reaches a casualty, just launching can be a demanding task If all lifeboat stations were based in easily accessible harbours...
Category: Articles
Rescue Awards
SEVENTEEN crew members of life-boat and inshore rescue craft at stations around Britain are to receive awards from the Royal National Life-boat Institution for their recent actions in saving lives.
The men, operating from...
Category: Awards
Merisia
JANUARY 26TH. - PORT ST. MARY, ISLE OF MAN. The steam trawler Merisia, of Fleetwood, while on her way to the northern fishing grounds, struck the rocks in Bulgham Bay, north of Laxey, in the Isle of Man.
The time was about...
The S.S. Riso
About 9.40 P.M. on the 4th February during a ' strong westerly gale intimation was re- j ceived that s.s. Bt'so, of Haugesund, had run on to " Longcraig" rocks about seven miles to the east of Dunbar. The crew of the...
Aneroid Barometers
Iltestratton of the Fisheriaaa's Aneroid Barometer as issued bj the National Life-boat Institution.
Its Dial or Face, which is enamelled, is five inches in diameter, being half an inch larger tifta the ordinary Mi-sized...
Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
PORTHLEVEN, CORNWALL.—The 30-feet Life-boat on this station has been re- placed by a new and larger boat, 34 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 10 oars, double banked. The cost of the new boat, with its transporting carriage, has been...
Category: Articles