LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1991 Fa B 3 Prototype (Right)
It may be hard to believe, but the same self-righting principle applies to these two lifeboats, separated by more than 125 years of development. The sails and oars may have given way to turbocharged diesels, but the raised fore-and-aft boxes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tourist Tangle
The morning of 1 June was sunny and calm – the perfect day for a sightseeing trip around Coquet Island bird reserve.
Amble’s lifeboats, the Mersey class The Four Boys and D class Rosemary Palmer, were called out at 11am to...
Category: Articles
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Jan. 1, 1857. THOMAS CHAP- MAN, Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
425 people saved
Mother Nature threw a lot at our lifesavers in 2013: it was the coldest Spring since 1962, the hottest Summer for 7 years and the windiest December since 1993. But they rescued thousands and saved 425 lives.
'These...
Category: Articles
ON GUARD
Ten new beaches will be watched over by RNLI lifeguards this year, making a total of 224 safer spots for your Summer.
The service covers top holiday hotspots in England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Jersey, and...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the "plan" or deck view. Fig. 3...
Category: Articles
Imperial Prince
A VERY fine service in which the crew of the Newburgh Life-boat and men of H.M. Destroyers Vampire and Vendetta played a gallant part, took place on October 19th, the anniversary of the wreck of the Hopelyn last year, off Belhelvie, near...
June (1)
JUNE MEETING CARNE, Co. WEXFORD. On the night of the 16th March, 1941, the steam trawler Thomas Booth, of Milford Haven, when on her way to the fishing grounds, ran on to the Whelkeen Rock, a mile off shore, S.S.E. of Wexford. The weather...
Category: Services
The S.S. Urlana and Thurland Castle (1)
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
Forthcoming Articles
A NUMBER of articles and reports which it had been hoped to publish in this number have been held over owing to lack of space, among them being " Honorary Workers of the Institution : Mr. Ernest Woolfield, Honorary Secre- tary of the...
Category: Articles