LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Inflatable Toys and Dinghies
Rye Harbour's C Class inflatable lifeboat was called out by Dover Coastguard at 1115 on Sunday 9 July to what would prove to be probably its busiest day since the station opened.
Hot weather had drawn huge crowds to...
Old England
ENGRAVED CRYSTAL GLASS LIFEBOAT TANKARDS Profiles of some of RNLI's offshore fleet, strikingly engraved on half or one pint Crystal Glass Tankards. Order individually or as sets, selecting the craft of your choice from the illustrations...
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Yarmouth - East Division
Main photo {far left) Ref: 639489 Detailed photo (left) ftef 639472 Yarmouth, on the Isle of Wight, lies beside a harbour set in the estuary of the River Yar and is home to the busy Lymington- Isle of Wight ferry... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Centenary of Two Life-Boat Stations. Boulmer, Northumberland; Appledore, Devon
THIS summer two of the Institution's Life-boat Stations have celebrated their centenaries, Boulmer, in Northumberland, and Appledore, on the north coast of Devon. Boulmer was the first of the Institution's Stations in...
Category: Articles
The New Launching Tractor
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life boats.
LAST year the Institution completed the first of a new type of tractor for launching Life-boats off flat beaches. It was built as the result of...
Category: Inaugurations
The Material Revolution
"he days when wood was the automatic choice of material from which to build a lifeboat have long gone - today aluminium, steel and a new generation of composites are providing the solutions to technical problems. James Paffett explains ...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
NORTH DEAL.—A new life-boat station has been established by the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, at the north end of the town of Deal on the Kentish coast, as it was thought that a life-boat placed there might be useful on occasions of wrecks...
Category: Articles
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Notes of the Quarter
Two life-boats 70- foot in length, which will be larger than any at present in the Institution's service, are to be built by Messrs. Yarrow and Company Ltd.
in Scotstoun, Glasgow. Both will be constructed in steel, one...
Category: Articles
New D Class for North Sunderland
North Sunderland took possession of its new D class inshore lifeboat at a ceremony on Sunday, 26 April 1998, when it was officially named Martin, John & Ann.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs