LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1949
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Category: Services
Freja Svea
Shortly before this issue went to press Hartlepool's Waveney Class lifeboat The Scout capsized twice while on service to the 97,000 ton tanker Freja Svea which was dragging her anchor and eventually went aground in Severe Gale Force...
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Category: Advertisement
In celebration of 2010
On 19 May 2011, the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting heard about the charity’s key activities from 2010, and the Annual Presentation of Awards recognised the outstanding achievements of lifesavers, fundraisers and...
Category: Articles
Aberystwyth Lifeboats By Joan Davies
BACK IN THE TIME of the Romans the dip in the cliffs where the River Rheidol and the River Ystwyth come down to Cardigan Bay was already recognised as an important landing place, to be guarded with an encampment. At such a favourable strand,...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Putting training into practice The crew atWeston-super-Mare were training in the Atlantic 75 lifeboat Coventry and Warwickshire on 8 June when they diverted to a real shout. A crew of five on a yacht requested assistance because of engine...
Category: Services
Bronze Medals for Two Scottish Coxswains. St. Andrews, Fifeshire and Thurso, Caithness-Shire
St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and Thurso, Caithness-shire.
Two gallant services were carried out by Life-boats in Scotland during March., one by the Pulling and Sailing Life- boat at St. Andrews, Fifeshire, and the other by the...
Category: Medals
(Above) They Were Queuing Up to Give to the Rnli In Llford on London Lifeboat Day
(Above) They were queuing up to give to the RNLI in llford on London lifeboat day, when a total of £180,590 was raised in Greater London and the City.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Sheerness Trent Class Lifeboat George and Ivy Swanson
Above: Sheerness Trent class lifeboat George and Ivy Swanson helps to evacuate crew from their vessel. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
LOOKING AT a lifeboat when housed, perhaps the first design detail to catch the eye is the propeller and its tunnel.
Each of the twin propellers is housed in a tunnel built into the stern, the principal aims being shallow...
Category: Articles