LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At 11.30 a.m. on loth December, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that a sick woman on Inishmaan Island was in need of hospital treatment, and that he had to attend another patient on Inishere Island. In the absence of...
University Marine
If the RNLI choose the Mermaid ...
why don't YOU? Mermaid Type 595 (FORD 2704C) marine diesel propulsion engine.
Built to the Royal National Life-boat Institution's strict specification Mermaid...
Category: Advertisement
The Four Young Whitnalls (Left to Right) Timothy, Now 9 (In Cap), Simon, 10, Mark, 7, and Jolly Rebecca, 31/2, Who Wants to Be 'A Life-Boatman'.
The four young Whitnalls (left to right) Timothy, now 9 (in cap), Simon, 10 , Mark, 7, and jolly Rebecca, 3j, who wants to be 'a life-boatman'. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of IF. G. Whitnall. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) a Tyne Hull Which Is Built Upside Down Until the Plating Is Complete Is Turned Over Ready for Decking In Fairey's Yard East Cowes
(Right) A Tyne hull, which is built upside down until the plating is complete, is turned over ready for decking in Fairey's yard, East Cowes. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of David Hillmer. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Never Mind
JANUARY 1 2TH. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 5 P.M. the life-boat cosswain received information that the fishing boat Never Mind, of Liverpool, was missing, and that signals of distress had been seen off the Burbo Bank, and the No. 1 motor...
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To HAROLD J. BRADFORD, on his retirement, after serving for 6j years as coxswain, ~l years as second coxswain and 4| years as bowman of the Exmouth life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an ex-gratia grant.
Category: Awards
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
Back In Business—Hunstanton Closed 1931: Re-Opened 1979 By Ray Kipling Public Relations Officer Rnli
AT INTERVALS around our coasts stand solid, stone buildings with arched doorways facing the sea, many now with moss on their tiled roofs, weeds in the gutters and rust on the runners for the massive wooden doors. They are old lifeboathouses,...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 15 pride in the past: inspiration for the future THE 1984 ANNUAL MEETINGS of the RNLI at the Royal Festival Hall, London, on Tuesday May 15, will long be remembered by all who attended. The afternoon presentation of...
Category: Meetings
Hunstanton Atlantic 75
23 May 1999 - Sharon Parke anoints the new Hunstanton Atlantic 75 with Champagne as she names the €71,000 lifeboat, DJS Haverhill, in memory of her late uncle, David James Sisson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs