LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE IST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER,...
Category: Articles
What Are Lifeboats Made Of? By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
For modern boats there is a choice. Wood, glass reinforced plastic, steel and aluminium are all very good, well tried materials. The first three have all been used for RNLI lifeboat hulls while aluminium is used for superstructures. All have...
Category: Articles
Update on the Fast Carriage Lifeboat
Since the report in the winter 1985/6 issue of THE LIFEBOAT on the building of an experimental prototype of a fast carriage launched boat, extensive trials have been taking place. She is photographed (right) undergoing speed tests off...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOE THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Otmerse— Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
Lifeboat Services from Page 191
damage. He also felt it would be too dangerous to try to close alongside.
Instead, he instructed his crew to prepare a tow and moved the lifeboat, stern-first, towards the casualty's port bow. The occupants could be...
Category: Services
Painting the Life-Boats of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
IN order to insure regularity in painting the life-boats of the Institution, and the use of the best description of paint, its Committee have decided on forwarding the requisite supply of paint, each year, direct from the...
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History In the Re-Making: In January 1899 Lynmouth Lifeboat Was Hauled Up Countisbury Hill Ten Miles Over Exmoor and Down the Notorious Porlock Hill Through a Severe Gale So That She Could La
History in the re-making: in January 1899 Lynmouth lifeboat was hauled up Countisbury Hill, ten miles over Exmoor and down the notorious Porlock Hill through a severe gale so that she could launch from the comparative shelter of Porlock Weir... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Falmouth Lifeboat and St.Simeon
Falmouth Lifeboat and St Simeon. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Moss Rose
ENGINE FAILURE Ramsgate, Kent. At 12.34 a-m- on 2Oth March, 1965, the East Pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a small boat, with an outboard motor, was in difficulties because of an engine failure and drifting seawards half a...