LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Going for Gold
Not only is The Lifeboat College a centre of excellence for lifeboat crews and staff - it provides a base for other organisations to learn about the RNLI's work. Regional Education Officer Dave Cooling looks back on a lively week when 14...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies
THIRTEEN new motor life-boats were named during 1952. Six were on the English coast, at Barrow-in-Furness, Clacton-on-Sea, Hoylake, Minehead, Padstow and Plymouth; four on the Scottish coast, at Aberdeen, Eyemouth, Gourdon and Whitehills;...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S. Margo
MARCH 8TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
At 2.28 P.M. the coastguard called for the life-boat to go out to a steamer to bring off some wounded men. A N.E. gale was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat W. and S. was launched...
Shire Design Electronics Limited
A D V E R T I S M E N T A TRUE STORY ABOUT RELIEF FROM Some years ago, I suffered a slipped disk - a common enough problem but I made the mistake of not resting and letting nature take its course. The end result of this was that the...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Somali (2)
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BOULMER MA R C H 2 7 T H . - B O U L M E R , NORTH SUNDERLAND, AND HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
During the night of the 26th of March a large steamer was seen to be on fire off the Northumbrian coast...
To Mark the Retirement of Willie Mceachern Motor Mechanic at Islay for 25 Years and a Lifeboatman of 40 Years Service He and His Wife Were Guests of Honour at a Carniva
To mark the retirement of Willie McEachern, motor mechanic at Islay for 25 years and a lifeboatman of 40 years service, he and his wife were guests of honour at a carnival dance in December—a gathering of friends and colleagues. During the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
First Skin Is Laid Diagonally: a Plank Which Has Been Offered Up and Shaped to Lie Snugly With Its Neighbour Is Cramped Into Position and Fastened to the Solid Timbers of T
First skin is laid diagonally: a plank which has been offered up and shaped to lie snugly with its neighbour is cramped into position and fastened to the solid timbers of the boat's frame.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the Night of 14Th October Last Year the Buckle, Banffshire, Life-Boat Laura Moncur and a Shackleton Mark 3 of No. 120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, Took Part In a Search and Rescue Exercise. T
On the night of 14th October last year the Buckle, Banffshire, life-boat Laura Moncur and a Shackleton Mark 3 of No.
120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, took part in a search and rescue exercise. The life-boat carried a second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Flowers All the Way a Well Dressing at the Village of Dore (Right) and (Below) a Model Lifeboat 'Floats'' on a Rough Breaking Sea of Grey and White Plants at Brentwood
Flowers all the way . . . a well dressing at the village of Dore (right), and (below) a model lifeboat 'floats'' on a rough, breaking sea of grey and white plants at Brentwood.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
52-02, Sir William Arnold Stationed at St.Peter Port, and 54-03, Civil Service and Post Office Fund No. 37. on Trials Together Off Guernsey, Note Cut Down Freeboard On
52-02, Sir William Arnold stationed at St Peter Port, and 54-03, Civil Service and Post Office Fund No. 37. on trials together off Guernsey, Note cut down freeboard on side decks and development of wheelhouse, flying bridge and stowage of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs