LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
First Aid In Life-Boats
A XEW book of instruction on first aid, First Aid for Life-boat Crews, which has been prepared by Dr. Geoffrey Hale, a member of the Committee of Management, has been issued to all life-boat stations. The purpose of the book is to explain...
Category: Articles
Vital Volunteers
It is not just the shops that would suffer without volunteers. There are more than 800 RNLI fundraising branches and guilds across the UK and Rol, whose souvenir secretaries operate from stalls at local events, sometimes in the least likely...
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The Presentation of Public Relations Statuettes Was Made By the Duke of Atholl Seen Above (I) With Mrs Stanley Herbert Who Received the Statuette Awarded Posthum
The presentation o)'public relations statuettes was made by the Duke of Atholl, seen above (I.) with Mrs Stanley Herbert, who received the statuette awarded posthumously to her husband, and Peter Hadfield. (Right) The other two... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The French Life-Boat Society. Boat-House With Movable Platform at La Joliette, Marseilles
THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...
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May Blossom
fishing coble May Blossom, of Whitby, had a trying1 experience when making for Whitby on the 24th March. The coble had been out to the crab pots, and when returning a heavy easterly sea was breaking across the entrance of the harbour. The...
The Dory Angelina
Every second counts as three saved from submerged dory The crew of the Whitstable lifeboat had just 17 minutes to save three lives. Weather conditions were so bad, they exceeded the operating limits of the lifeboat, but the crew knew that...
And They're Off!
The BT Global Challenge got off to a somewhat choppy start in Southampton on 29 September 1996.
Toshiba Wave Warrior can be seen in the centre of the above photograph accompanied by Calshot's Brede class lifeboat,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rnli News
Awards to Lifeboatmen Alan Thomas, coxswain of the Tenby lifeboat, has won the Maud Smith Award for 'the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman' during 1989.
The award follows the lifeboat's rescue...
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Bittern
During a heavy gale from S.W.
on the 22nd April the yacht Bittern, of Berwick, was observed being rapidly driven seawards. The gale was increas- ing in violence, and it was considered necessary to launch the Life-boat to...
Henry Browne & Son Ltd
The new experimental Hatch-boat built by Wm. Osborne Ltd.. of Littlehampton lor the Royal National Lifeboat Institution who specify Sestrel compasses.
COMPASSES Write for Illustrated catalogue of compasses, post free on...
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