LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Brookes & Gatehouse
electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.L.I. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is by virtually everlasting •Betalite'. It has two range scales:...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution is again issuing a life-boat Christmas card and calendar.
They will both have reproduced on them in colours a picture, specially g linted for the Institution by Mr.
ernard Gribble...
Category: Advertisement
(Above) Mrs Watts Christens the Lifeboat, Beatrice Dorothy
(Above) Mrs Watts christens the lifeboat, Beatrice Dorothy with the traditional bottle of champagne.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Mrs Stanley Taylor With the Tenby Crew.
Above: Mrs Stanley Taylor with the Tenby crew.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Better than fiction
Neil Oliver’s fascination with daring deeds has led him to champion the RNLI – and he’s been in deep water himself a few times, as he tells Rory Stamp
With his rich Scots accent and long black hair, broadcaster, writer and...
Category: Articles
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The Winter 1906 Life-boat Journal featured a letter of thanks to the Broadstairs lifeboat crew, Kent, after they had launched into a south westerly gale and...
Category: Articles
The Fisheries Exhibition
IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...
Category: Articles
Andrew Holland a 13-Year-Old Sea Scout from Inverkeithing
Andrew Holland, a 13-year-old Sea Scout from Inverkeithing, Fife, undertook a sponsored 28-day camp out last summer to raise funds for his Scout group and the Institution. Andrew had the company of his brother David who camped with him for... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Sponsored Silence Organised By Skegness Ladies' Guild Was Undertaken By 72 Local Children and Raised £534 the First Three Prize Winners Michelle Hilton Emma
A sponsored silence, organised by Skegness ladies' guild, was undertaken by 72 local children and raised £534. The first three prize winners, Michelle Hilton, Emma Ruston and Wendy Balderson, between them raised £68. They were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies
Padstow April 15, 1985 The strong gales that had lashed the Cornish coasts during the weekend subsided in time for Monday April 15, which dawned overcast but calm and dry. By mid-day the crowds were beginning to line the tiny harbour's...
Category: Inaugurations