LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RETIREMENT
Rear Admiral G. S. Ritchie, C.B., D.S.C., Hydrographer of the Navy, retired in February and his place as ex-officio member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I, is beingtaken by Rear Admiral G. P. D. Hall,...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat (23)
DECEMBER 7TH. - FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.
A fishing boat had run aground, but her crew scrambled ashore.- Rewards, £16 5s. 6d..
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. At nine o’clock on the night of the 5th of July, 1946, the Margate coastguard asked a local boatman to go to the help of the fishing boat Barbie, which appeared to be drifting seawards. A light south-west...
Category: Services
Early This Year the Failsworth Branch of the RNLI Held a Sponsored Knit Which Raised £122 People Were Asked to Knit Nine-Inch Squares to Make Into Blankets Altogeth
Early this year the Failsworth branch of the R.N.L.I.
held a sponsored knit which raised £122. People were asked to knit nine-inch squares to make into blankets.
Altogether 500 squares were knitted... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charley Lloyd the Second Rnli Lifeboat Stationed at Thurso
Charley Lloyd, the second RNLI lifeboat stationed at Thurso. - View image in PDF
Between 1871 and 1890 she saved 255 lives.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
How to Help the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
1. By becoming an Annual Subscriber, even if the amount subscribed be small; or by giving a donation.
2. By taking charge of a collecting box, or card, and endeavouring to fill it.
3. By remembering...
Category: Advertisement
Walmer's Distinctive Boathouse
Walmer's distinctive boathouse had to be lengthened to accommodate the station's Atlantic - the front of the building was rebuilt 6m to seaward!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
List of Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Purchase of the Following Life-Boats
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Category: Donations
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part IV: Deck and Superstructure
FROM PREVIOUS PARTS of this article it will be remembered that, as the fast slipway boat (FSB) is made of steel, her hull is built upside-down until plating is complete. Here (Figs I and 2) the second of the two prototype FSBs building at...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 17 1982: 1,281 people rescued; nearly £16 million raised NOT MANY spring or early summer days have been sunny this year, but Tuesday May 17, when RNLI people from all parts of England, Ireland, Scotland...
Category: Meetings