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 lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th January, 1887.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., M.P., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting. Also read those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
Your Letters
Lanzarote lifesavers I shot these photographs in Playa Blancha, Lanzarote recently - the only lifeboats I saw in the Canary Islands! You are welcome to use them to illustrate foreign lifeboats.
Michael Osbaldston South...
Category: Correspondence
Right: a Narrow Aisle 9M Up. Some Warehouse Staff Received Abseiling Training
Right: A narrow aisle 9m up. Some warehouse staff received abseiling training - Billy Bugden, Ray Honeybun, Oave Arthurs, Gary Sadler, Dave Laws and Bob Doak. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Members of 117 Field Support Squadron RE at Work on the Track at Kirkcudbright Scotland Which Leads to the Life-Boat Station and (Below) the Finished Track Which Took T
Members of 117 Field Support Squadron, R.E., at work on the track at Kirkcudbright, Scotland, which leads to the life-boat station and (below) the finished track which took the squadron from 1st to 13th July, 1963, to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Lifeboat Fleet
Station Aberdeen Aberdovey Abersoch Aberystwyth Aith Aldeburgh Alderney Amble Amble Angle Anstruther Appledore Arbroath Arbroath Arklow Arran Arranmore Atlantic College Ballycotton Ballyglass Baltimore Bangor Barmouth Barra Island Barrow...
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Poole lifeboats Inner Wheel and Sam and Iris Coles, involved in a sub-zero search of Poole Harbour for two missing fishermen in January. photograph by courtesy of John Buckley
Poole lifeboats Inner Wheel and Sam and Iris Coles, involved in a sub-zero search of Poole Harbour for two missing fishermen in January. photograph by courtesy of John Buckley. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Young John
Appledore, Devon. About seven o'clock on the evening of the 21st of June, 1958, a message was received from Ilfracombe radio station that the traw- ler Young John of St. Ives had engine trouble near the Fairway bell buoy in Barnstable...
(Below) Slipway: New Galvanised Steel Panels Were Bolted to the Transoms to the Tops of Which Up to a Metre of Concrete Had Been Added
(Below) Slipway: new galvanised steel panels were bolted to the transoms, to the tops of which up to a metre of concrete had been added.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs