LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Around the Coast
FROM AN ARTICLE on Horton and Port Eynon ILB station by Mr C. R. Chatterton published in the Newsletter of Reardon Smith Line. Mr Chatterton is chairman of both the shipping line and the ILB station branch: 'Operating an inshore lifeboat...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Dynamo
FEBRUARY 27TH a n d 2 8TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK.
At 9.30 in the morning the Gorleston coastguard telephoned to the life-boat station that the S.S. Dynamo, of Hull, was aground on North Bank. She was...
Awards to Coxswains, Crews and Shore Helpers
The following coxwains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement and, in addition, those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations, were awarded an annuity, gratuity or...
Category: Awards
Life-Boat Services In 1892
Agenese, brig, of Sandefjord—as- sisted to save vessel.
Alice, ketch, of Milford 2 Alonso, 8.8., of Hull 7 Arbroath fishing boats—remained in attendance.
Arne,& schooner.of Soon—assisted to...
Category: Articles
Twelve Hours at Night on the Goodwins
ON the night of the 24th of November, 1951, a gale from the west-south-west was blowing across the Goodwin Sands. The seas were very heavy, and the night very dark, with both mist and rain squalls. At 6.48 the coast- guard rang up the Walmer...
Category: Services
Left: Alan Tate
Left: Alan Tate, superintendent of the Inshore Lifeboat Centre, Cowes. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sustainability: the long view
If you find it tricky to keep your landfill waste, carbon footprint and electricity bills to a minimum, spare a thought for the RNLI – we’ve got people and buildings all around the UK and Republic of Ireland. But we have a duty...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. l.
. Sheer Plan.
Fig. 2.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of...
Category: Articles
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, Are Often Attracted to This Large R.N.L.I. Codfish Collecting Box Which Stands at the Approach to the Beach. Mr. W. E. Russell Is the Honorary Volunt
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, are often attracted to this large R.N.L.I. codfish collecting box which stands at the approach to the beach. Mr.
W. E. Russell is the honorary volunteer emptier of this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
M. Andre Citroen
The Institution has also lost a very generous friend by the death of M.
Andre1 Citroen, founder and head of the great French motor-manufacturing firm which bears his name. M. Citroen will be remembered not only for his work...
Category: Obituaries