LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
'Big Sister' Is World Leader
BY the end of the 1960s it was obvious that a larger lifeboat, which could operate at night was needed. After testing various rigid hull boats, the RNLI chose one pioneered by Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare at Atlantic College, South Wales. The...
Category: Articles
South Coast Rescue Boat
THE Institution has stationed one of its fast inshore rescue boats at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to help Yarmouth's 48-foot 6-inch life-boat in rescue coverage of the Needles Channel-Lymington area.
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Category: Photographs
Lifeboatmen and Fishermen By Colin Ashford
'The great majority of lifeboatmen are fishermen. They are men who daily sail the seas. They have acquired a skill in handling boats which touches the miraculous, and they know their own piece of coast, its sunken rocks, its shifting...
Category: Articles
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
INDEX TO THE GIFT LIFE-BOATS OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to ttie numbers of the Lifeboats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 123. Dodd, H..Esq . the late, 274. H...
Category: Donations
Deck Plan of a Self-Righting Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution Showing the Manner In Which the Gear Is Stowed
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Category: Drawings
Lifeboat Services
Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun 1050: Jun 7, 24, 28 and Jul 21 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: June 8, 15 and Jul 29 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jun 22, 29, Jul 4, 13, 14, 27 and 31 Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Atlantic 75: Jun 15...
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Where Help Is Wanted
In the North-West of England.
THE Institution is anxious to form or develop Branches in the following places the North-West of England, and would be very grateful to any readers of The Lifeboat who could help it to do...
Category: Advertisement
Tusker Rock Joint Rescue
FOR a joint service to a sand dredger Coxswain Derek Scott, of the Mumbles life-boat, has been awarded the bronze medal of the Institution, and Helmsman Lindsey S. Knipe and crew members James Lock and Richard A. Comley, of the Porthcawl IRB...
Category: Services
List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1862
Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution and 51. to Mr. THOMAS ADAMS, the master of the smack Volunteer, of Harwich. Also the Silver Medal and 21. to each of the 5 men who went off in the smack's boat to the wreck; and the...
Category: Articles
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