LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Celebrating a big year
In May we’ll be celebrating the achievements of RNLI volunteers and supporters at the Annual Presentation of Awards. It’s all happening at the Barbican Hall, London, on 21 May 2015. The Annual General Meeting starts at 11.30am and the awards...
Category: Articles
Why Does She Get Launched?
WHY does she get launched ? A ship, that is.
In other words, why, really, is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne ? Here are the answers,...
Category: Articles
Co-Operation Keynote
The 15th International Lifeboat Conference took place at La Coruna, Spain in June this year. The RNLI was represented and, here, Public Relations Officer EDWARD WAKE-WALKER reports on the continuing dialogue between lifeboat societies from...
Category: Meetings
Torbay: the Crew from the Cargo Vessel Majorca Are Put Ashore at Brixham
Torbay: The crew from the cargo vessel Majorca are put ashore at Brixham. At 0430 on Saturday September 18, 1982, Majorca, 20 miles south east of Straight Point, sent out a may day call; she had a list of 5 degrees and her cargo was shifting... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
GIVE IT A GO: STARGAZING
When’s the last time you looked up at the night sky? RNLI fundraiser and amateur astronomer Simon Perks tells us how we can all wonder at the stars above
Simon Perks’s dad had a cool job at sea. As a boy, Simon was...
Category: Articles
Second Life-Boat Medal Awarded Forty-Five Years Later
AT the age of 62 Coxswain Henry Nicholas, of Sennen Cove life-boat, has been awarded the bronze second service clasp for gallantry. Nearly 45 years earlier he won his first bronze medal at the age of 17 when the Sen- nen Cove life-boat...
Category: Services
The Annual Meetings Continued
Presentation of Awards As usual, the morning's Annual General Meet ing was followed in the afternoon by the Institution's Annual Presentation of Awards, both to voluntary workers and for gallantry.
Mr Acland opened...
Category: Meetings
Ben Doran
Two Wrecks in the Shetlands.
Stromness Motor Life-boat's Journeys of 260 and 240 Miles.
DURING March and April two vessels were wrecked on the Shetland Islands.
They were both vessels...
52' Arun Class Lifeboat (Beam 17') Is Self-Righting First Three Boats Built of Cold Moulded Wood; Later Ones Will Be of Grp Twin Caterpillar Marine Diesel Engines Each De
52' Arun class lifeboat (beam 17') is self-righting. First three boats built of cold moulded wood; later ones will be of grp. Twin Caterpillar marine diesel engines, each developing 460 bhp, give speed of about 19 knots.
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Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS — Her Majesty the Queen.
List of the Two Hundred and Forty-two Life-Boat Stations...
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