LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Past and Present
35 years ago The report of the 1959 AGM in the June 1959 issue of THE LIFEBOAT makes an interesting comparison with that of its successor 35 years later, the costs may be missing several zeros compared with today's figures but threeand-...
Category: Articles
Appledore Boathouse Opening
Appledore boathouse opening The official opening and dedication of the Appledore lifeboat house took place on 29 September 2001. Storm Force member Harriet Weatherby Crompton (12) cut the ribbon and officially declared the boathouse open.<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Beginning of the New Fleet
When the war in Europe ended sixteen months ago, six life-boats were in the yard waiting to be finished. Four of them have since gone to the coast.
Of the 29 life-boats which the Institution had planned to build as soon as...
Category: Articles
Formby
IN 1894 the Committee of Management decided to take over control, upkeep and maintenance of ail the Life-boat stations in Liverpool Bay which had hitherto been under the management of the Mersey Dock Board, the latter corporation undertaking...
Category: Articles
Fig 6:
Fig 6: Deckhouse and cabin ventilation is protected from sea water by a combined capsize or anti-flooding air intake valve developed by the RNLI design office. When all is well, air coming in passes through a perforated box, B, past the open...
Category: Drawings
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1882
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:— (Vide next page for this list.)...
Category: Meetings
Richard B Wigfull & Son Ltd
PRESENTATION GIFTS THE WESTCOUNTRY "PURITAN" SERVING SPOON A spoon of limited manufacture, produced by Wigfull's for occasions of celebration and personal importance.
A very fine example of English...
Category: Advertisement
Prairie Flower
WEXFORD.—While a moderate gale from W.S.W. to N.W. was blowing, accompanied by a rough sea, on the morning of the 16th April, signals of distress were seen flying on a fishing-smack. TheLife-boat .Andrew Pickard was launched at 9.45, sailed...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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Alexander
CARDIGAN.—:During a gale from the S.W. on the 9th February the schooner Alexander, of Beaumaris, bound from Port Dinorwic for Carmarthen with a cargo of slates, ran for Cardigan Bay, and brought up off the Black Rocks outside the...