LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
STAITHES, YORKSHIRE.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has recently formed a Life-boat establishment at Staithes, near Whitby, where it was con- sidered that a Life-boat would be most useful, especially in helping the fishing boats, which...
Category: Articles
New director
James Vaughan is the RNLI’s new Corporate Services Director, taking over from Ian Ventham who retired in August after 18 years with the charity. Promoted internally from Head of Fundraising and Communications Services, James is now...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures In 1987 the RNLI's lifeboats have so far launched 2,518 times, saving 1,046 lives.
In 1986 lifeboats launched 3,723 times (an average of over 10 times each day) and saved 1,424 lives (an average of...
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Fig 5
Fig 5: An Arun lifeboat inverted during her self-righting trials. Note how high she rides on her wheelhouse. A limited area in the centre of the boat, the 'envelope', will always be clear of the static water level.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The child, the engineer and the Wizzer
In October 1973, airmen and their families in the then West Germany pledged to raise funds for a B class lifeboat
Young Allen Stevens was a primary school student at RAF Wildenrath, where his...
Category: Articles
A Fishing Boat
Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford.—At 8.20 on the evening of the 23rd of August, 1956, a telephone message was received that a fishing boat had been driven ashore on the Great Keragh, and that a man and a woman had waded in from her. At 8.30 the...
Fig 3: Looking Up Into the Starboard Propeller Tunnel Lower End of Rectangular Propeller Freeing Scupper Can Be Seen Clearly and Also Further Forward the Hole Which
Fig 3: Looking up into the starboard propeller tunnel, lower end of rectangular propeller freeing scupper can be seen clearly and also, further forward, the hole which will take the stern tube for the propeller shaft. Outboard of the tunnel... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
May
Launches 22. Lives rescued 17.
MAY 4TH.. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. Early in the morning , information was received from the coastguard that signals had been seen seven to eight miles N.N.W. of Kinnaird Head, and at...
Category: Services
Lans (1)
Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate assistance. Longhope lifeboat,...
Trawlers Ben Bheula and Cyelse
Barra Island, Outer Hebrides. — At 10.40 in the morning of the llth of March, 1949, the Duntulm coastguard reported that the Fleetwood steam trawler Ben Bheula was leaking and in need of help two miles east of Castlebay, and the life-boat...