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All lifeboats great and small

Date: Autumn 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 597 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2011

Who could help you find a lifeboat, build a scale model of one or even uncover the adventures of a former lifesaving craft?

There’s one branch of the RNLI whose members are brought together not...

Category: Articles

Letters

Date: Winter 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 491

Bitter sweet home-coming In September of last year my boyfriend and I were returning home after cruising abroad for almost two years. Unfortunately we were in collision with another vessel (I need not go into the details of the incident...

Category: Correspondence

SPECIAL DELIVERY

Date: Spring 2019

Volume: 61

Issue: 627 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2019 (1)

READER INSPIRATION: WORDS
I am a member of a writers’ group. Recently we were asked to write about a lighthouse. It brought me back to my childhood when I was always fascinated by the man in the lighthouse. Those times have passed...

Category: Articles

Long Service to Oil Tanker

Date: September 1967

Volume: 40

Issue: 421

WHEN the 61,000 ton Liberian tanker Torrey Canyon went aground on the Seven Stones on the 18th March, 1967, two life-boats were called out. Both spent many hours at sea.

The first report to reach a life-boat station came...

Category: Services

Ceremonies

Date: Spring 1990

Volume: 51

Issue: 512

Naming and dedication Ceremonies Relief Fleet- Arun class Duke of Atholl The City Chambers at Dundee became the scene of great activity on Saturday 12 May 1990 when the Duke of Atholl's private army disembarked from buses and tuned their...

Category: Inaugurations

The Bottle Breaks

Date: September 1952

Volume: 33

Issue: 362

The Plymouth life-boat and her crew. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Right: to the Rescue

Date: Autumn 2001

Volume: 58

Issue: 558

Right: To the rescue Pictures Hamish Campbell. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Obituaries

Date: Winter 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 527

With deep regret we record the following deaths: OCTOBER 1993 Mrs E. Hill, honorary secretary of Gourock ladies' guild from 1954 to 1974. She was awarded a Silver badge in 1964 and a Gold badge in 1975.

Mrs Sheena Luke,...

Category: Obituaries

Naming Ceremony at St. Ives

Date: December 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 348

THE new St. Ives motor life-boat was named on the 17th of August. She is the eleventh life-boat that the station has had since it was established in 1840. The station has had a chequered history. Its life-boats have been out on service 180...

Category: Inaugurations

Paris Universal Exhibition. Model Life-Boats, Etc

Date: October 1855

Volume: 02

Issue: 18

WE annex a list of the various models and other articles which have been transmitted by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the Paris Universal Exhibition.

I. We are glad to understand that these articles form not...

Category: Articles