LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Annual Meetings
The RNLI's annual meetings - the AGM and Presentation of Awards - were held on 16 May at the Barbican, in the City of London, for the second year running. The 'new' venue provides enough space for the Institution to set up...
Category: Meetings
Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
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...
Category: Advertisement
A New Life-Boat Film
THE Institution has had a new film made, with dialogue, commentary and music, called "Shipshape." It shows the work of repair and supply for the life-boat stations which is constantly going on at the Institution's Depot, where...
Category: Articles
Mafeking and a Fishing Smack
AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...
175 Years
A TIME TO PAUSE AND LOOK BACK AROUND THE BEGINNING of the nineteenth century 31 'Original' lifeboats built by Henry Greathead of South Shields were established in ports and harbours scattered all round the British Isles. Not a great...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Exhibition at Greenwich
Last spring the Trustees of the National Maritime Museum at Green- wich, and the Museum's director, Mr.
Frank Carr, decided to arrange a special life-boat and life-saving exhibition.
To the...
Category: Articles
The RNLI and me: John Challis
As ‘Boycie’ he was a selfish yuppie keen to show his superiority – but in real life, actor John Challis is in awe of the lifeboat crews he generously supports
What’s your first...
Category: Articles
Ornen
NORTH SUNDERLAND.— The Life-boat Thomas Bewick was called out on service on the afternoon of the 4th of April to the assistance of the barque Ornen, of Frederickstadt, which was water-logged,and had driven on the Greenhill Sands, striking a...
The Auxiliary Yawl Mutin
DECEMBER 6TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
At 8.2 A.M. the Berry Head coastguard reported a small sailing vessel two miles E.N.E,. from Berry Heed making S.O.S. signals, A W.N.W. gale was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat...
Guide Friendship I Is Launched at Aberdovey After Being Handed Over to the Institution By Mrs D Parker-Bowles Commonwealth Guide Commissioner Photograph By Cour
Guide Friendship I is launched at Aberdovey after being handed over to the Institution by Mrs. - View image in PDF
D. Parker-Bowles, Commonwealth Guide Commissioner. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Janet Walker. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs