LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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New Severn class lifeboat for Stornoway station It has recently been agreed by the executive committee of the RNLI that Stornoway will be allocated a new Severn class lifeboat.
In 1995, Stornoway was allocated the first...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
The world's first lifeboat station? Until recently it has been accepted that the world's first lifeboat station was at Bamburgh, Northumberland, where, in 1786, Dr John Sharp, the chief administrator of the Crewe Trust, persuaded...
Category: Articles
Fishguard's New 52Ft Arun Class Lifeboat Marie Winstone
Fishguard's new 52ft Arun class lifeboat Marie Winstone gave a demonstration after her naming.
On her flying bridge were Coxswain Brian Hughes and the Duke of Kent.
photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New lifeboat station to be trialled
A new crew of RNLI volunteers are preparing to open a lifeboat station in south west Cork. An inshore lifeboat station should be up and running at Union Hall, Keelbeg, from mid 2014 for a 2-year trial period. The volunteers will operate an...
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Padstow Lifeboat James Burrough Photograph By Courtesy of Jeff Morris
Padstow Lifeboat James Burrough Photograph By Courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY., 1st Jan., 1874: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., F.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the. Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspon- dence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
(Above) Leaving Jersey the Queen Mother Is Cheered on Her Way By the Lifeboat Crew Photograph By Courtesy of Jersey Evening Post
(Above) Leaving Jersey, The Queen Mother is cheered on her way by the lifeboat crew . . . - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Jersey Evening Post.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
ALTHOUGH 1956 was by far the busiest year the Life-boat Service has known in time of peace, in the first three months of the present year even greater demands were made on lifeboat crews than were made in the corresponding months of 1956. By...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th October, 1876: THOMAS CHAPMAN Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
International Lifeboat Conference By Patrick Howarth
THE NETHERLANDS, APRIL 22-26 MORE NATIONS were represented at the thirteenth International Lifeboat Conference, which was held in the Netherlands from April 22 to 26, than ever before at one of these occasions. In the early days the...
Category: Meetings