LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lottery
Lifeboat Lottery The £1M barrier has been broken! The Winter 2006 Lifeboat Lottery brought in more than £1M, making the final income for the year £3.9M. This is a magnificent total and more than half as much again as that for...
Category: Articles
The Development of the Lifeboat By Eric Middleton
THE EVER INCREASING SPEED of Scientific and technological advance over recent years has naturally made itself felt in the design, construction and equipment of lifeboats throughout the world. So rapid have these changes been in the second...
Category: Articles
R.N.L.I.'s Management Review
R.N.L.I.'s Management Review THE COMMITTEE of Management of the Institution decided last year to invite P.A. Management Consultants to make a detailed review and examination (THE LIFE-BOAT, January, 1971) of the organisation and...
Category: Committee
Margaret
LATE DRIFTING Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.4 a.m. on i6th October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that he had heard a girl shouting for help near the harbour mouth. There was a moderate south-south-westerly...
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JULY 30TH. - HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE.
A red flare had been reported by a fisherman, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Rewards, £15 14s. 6d.
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFB-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
M.F.V. Venture
MFV standing into danger SHEERNESS deputy launching authority heard from Warden Point Coastguard at 2200 on March 22,1974, that a boat three-quarters of a mile east north east of the Coastguard lookout was exhibiting red hand flares and was...
LIFE-BOATS
The following additional life-boat services took place in May and August, 1969: No. 4 Life-boat Area Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 1.12 p.m. on 23rd August, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized off Benacre...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING WALMER, KENT. Shortly after 6 in the evening of the 17th August, 1941, a British Beaufort bomber crashed into the sea between Kingsdown and Walmer, some 400 yards off shore. A fresh S.W. wind was blowing, with a choppy sea....
Category: Services