LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The RIB: The Rigid-hulled Inflatable Lifeboat
The RIB:
The Rigid-hulled Inflatable
Lifeboat
by David Sutcliffe
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This is the unusual record of a very special college created from the vision of...
Category: Articles
Mr John Malcolm Freswick (Jackie) Groat Mbe Jp Dl
August 1998 Mr John Malcolm Freswick (Jackie) Groat MBE JP DL Longhope president and exhonorary secretary. Jackie was appointed secretary in 1962 a position he was to hold for 33 years. He was awarded the the MBE in 1985, the Gold badge in...
Category: Obituaries
International Conference on the World's Life-Boat Service
The Presentation of Gold Medals and Addresses of Congratulation to the Institution.
AN International Conference on the World's Life-boat Service was held, in connexion with the Centenary of the Institution, on 1st and...
Category: Meetings
Self-Devotion of An English Seaman
ON the 3rd of November last, during the gale which produced such devastating effects on the coast of Suffolk, and on other parts of the east coast of England, a Swedish brig, the Vestor, was driven ashore near Orfordness, on the Suffolk...
Category: Articles
Left: RNLI Senior Driver George Dadds
Left: RNLI senior driver George Dadds makes loading an Atlantic 21 look far too easy as he slips it on to the bed of his Mercedes. The truck is used mainly for long-haul work to Scotland and Ireland.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steam Trawler (3)
DECEMBER 10TH. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS.
A steam trawler had gone ashore but the crew were rescued by the coastguard life-saving apparatus from the shore.- Rewards, £19 3s. 9d.
(See Sanday, Orkneys, “...
A Trip In the Walmer Life-Boat
(This article appeared in Home Chat on the 29th of August, 1953.
It is reproduced by the courtesy of the editor.) THREE or four years ago, in the course of a television programme transmitted one summer's evening...
Category: Articles
Far Left: Ross Revenge Safe
Far left: Ross Revenge safe after her rescue by Vulture and the Lough Swilly crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above Far Right: a 'Casualty'
Above far right: A 'casualty' is carefully stretchered off during a previous exercise.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
A FFINIT V WITH AFFINITY WITH DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.
Not only will...
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