LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifE belt are Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person...
Category: Articles
September
Launches 29. Lives rescued 42.
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel...
Category: Services
Wreck of the 'Pomona'
Os the morning of the 30th April, 1859, one of the most disastrous wrecks on record occurred on the Blackwater Bank, in the Irish Channel, by which melancholy event no less than 385 persons perished.
The American clipper...
Category: Services
The Sharp End
Launching a D class from an open beach can be a very wet business -this is Withernsea's inflatable on the wrong end of a dumping breaker. And this is just the beginning of a lifeboat service…. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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
The R.N.L.I. Roadless Tractor, Made By the Roadless Traction Company
The RNLI Roadless Tractor Made By The Roadless Traction Company It Is A 40 HP Engine With Three Speed Ahead and One Astern It Can Take The Boat Over All Types of Beach. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
UNTIL the year 1857* the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION circulated at its lifeboat stations the Rules of the Royal Humane Society for the " Restoration of the Apparently Drowned." In that year, however, those Rules having...
Category: Articles
In This Issue
In this issue Institution News 2 Letters 9 Feature Advancing a great cause 10 A review of the 150 year history of the Lifeboat magazine Lifeboats in action 14 Award-winning rescues - including the first award for an RNLI lifeguard The...
Category: Contents
The Lucky Dip By Joyce Dunford
EDINBURGH'S PERMANENT LIFEBOAT SHOP, WHICH HAS NOW BEEN 'IN BUSINESS' FOR TEN YEARS by Joyce Dunford MANY ARE THE WAYS of raising money for the RNLI, but one of the most unusual is the Edinburgh shop, rightly named 'The Lucky...
Category: Articles
The Ferry Speedlink Vanguard and Pirate Radio Ship Ross Revenge
January storm ON SUNDAY JANUARY 6, 1985, northnorth- easterly winds of force 9 to storm force 10 hit the east coast and at 1812 that evening a message was received from the Sealink roll-on roll-off ferry, Speedlink Vanguard, that she had...