LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Helping hand The Mayor of St. Albans, the Revd Cllr Robert Donald, assisted St. Albans and district branch with a successful collection on 13 December 1996. The collection took place outside Safeways supermarket in Fleetville, St. Albans and...
Category: Articles
New District Inspectors Appointed
As a consequence of the steady in- crease in the number of services by life- boats and the need to train crews in the use of new types of rescue craft and equipment it has been decided to increase from the 1st July, 1963, the number of the...
Category: Committee
The Ocean Wave
GREAT YARMOUTH.—A schooner, whichproved to be the Ocean Wave, of Fowey, coal laden, from Shields for Plymouth, was seen stranded on the Scroby Sand in thick weather on the 5th May. At 6.50 p.m. the Life-boat John Surch proceeded to her...
A Rowing Boat
Hoylake, Cheshire - At 4 p.m. on 24th June, 1967, while the life-boat Oldham IV was returning from an exercise, a small rowing boat with four youths on board was sighted in the vicinity of Prestatyn buoy about a mile off...
On November 2 a Delegation from the Spanish Red Cross of the Sea Lifeboat Society Paid a Goodwill Visit to Rnli Hq and Depot at Poole Going on the Next Day to Visit Lymington and Yarmouth
On November 2 a delegation from the Spanish Red Cross of the Sea lifeboat society paid a goodwill visit to RNLI HQ and depot at Poole, going on the next day to visit Lymington and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat stations and the ILB depot... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Outboard: Watertight
SINCE HER INTRODUCTION to the RNLI fleet in 1971, the Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat has not only proved her worth on service, but has also shown herself to be a thoroughbred among boats.
With her speed, range,...
Category: Articles
People and Places
A TUNE FAMILIAR TO MILLIONS greeted Jan Harvey as she arrived at RNLI headquarters to draw the 33rd national lottery on April 30; it was the theme to Howard's Way, the BBC TV series in which she stars. Miss Harvey had kindly travelled to...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Harold Harvey Former lifeboat inspector Harold Harvey, the holder of an RNLI Gold Medal for Gallantry, died on 23 August at the age of 71.
He had served the RNLI from 1952 until 1973 and won his Gold Medal for his actions...
Category: Articles
Prototype of the Experimental Rnli Medina 35 Lifeboat
IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, the RNLI has been exploring the possibilities of introducing intermediate lifeboats into its fleet: fast boats of about 35 feet in length, essentially simple but with outstanding seakeeping qualities, which would...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy 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