LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
BIENVENUE!
Eastbourne’s Mersey class lifeboat Royal Thames was launched on 22 August to help the crew of a yacht that had suffered mechanical failure.
Lifeboat crew members are pictured onboard the yacht setting up a tow. The yacht’s...
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Book Reviews
With his series of books telling the stories of different life-boat stations Grahame Farr is making a unique contribution to the history of the life-boat service. Wreck and Rescue in the Bristol Channel (Part II): The Story of the Welsh...
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Faro
JANUARY 28TH. - LONGHOPE, ORKNEYS.
The Norwegian steamer Faro, of Oslo, had gone ashore in Tarncliff Bay.
Deerness, but the crew of seven were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus...
The Branches of the National Life-Boat Institution
AT the request of the General Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, HIS GRACE THE PRESIDENT has addressed the following important communication to its several Branches, inviting them anew to assist to carry on with unflagging...
Category: Branches
What Is a Covenant?
Covenant is an old-fashioned word which in modern English is the equivalent of 'undertake' or 'promise'. If an individual or a company undertakes to pay a charity a certain sum each year for a minimum of seven years, then the...
Category: Donations
Above: An Injured Walker Is Stretchered Down
Above: An injured walker is stretchered down a cliff by the Coastguard cliff rescue to the waiting lifeboat.
This is just an exercise, but in 2001 RNLI lifeboats launched 446 times to people who had fallen from cliffs or... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Lexicon
Continuing our occasional series explaining lifeboat terms and operations Awards for Gallantry The RNLI has been making awards for gallantry since it was founded 175 years ago. In that time the system has evolved, both keeping pace with the...
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Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 1.20 on the afternoon of the 15th September, 1961, the police passed on to the honorary secretary a report that someone was thought to be injured on the Calf of Man, as men had been seen making signals. A fresh to...
In stark contrast to Barry Dock's A class lifeboat, Margaret Frances
in stark contrast to Barry Dock's Ai class lifeboat, Margaret Frances Lc the pulling and sailing lifeboat, due Victoria, takes a trip alongside Barf waterfront during the centenary celebrations.. - View image in PDF
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Contents
Contents 0 0 ,82 Lifeboat Services 184 XL VIII LongService Awards 191 40J The naming Of the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Princess of Wales by HRH The Princess of Wales 192 Eleven Years On . . . a look at the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable...
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