LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Experimental Motor Life-Boat
THE Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have now for many years had the problem before their mind of the suc- cessful employment of a motor in a Life-boat, so as to assist by mechanical means, and thus relieve...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Services In March, April and May
DURING March, 1948, life-boats went out on service 30 times and rescued 10 lives.
AGROUND IN FOG Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a...
Category: Services
The Fundraisers
In Brief DURING 1993/94 Brian Davey, the box secretary of Frampton Cotterell branch collected an amazing £1,739.25 from collecting boxes placed in pubs, shops, railway stations and clubs.
THE 20th annual buffet dance...
Category: Articles
Truganini
Wednesday Catamaran caught out A BOAT SIGHTED in exceptionally heavy seas on the south west part of West Hoyle Bank and needing help was reported to the honorary secretary of Hoylake lifeboat station at 0845 on Thursday September 20, 1979,...
Life-Boat Conferences
South Eastern District.
CONFERENCES of Life-boat Workers in the South Eastern District were held at St. Leonards-on-Sea (for Branches in Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Kent.
Surrey and Sussex) on 4th and 5th...
Category: Meetings
Rescue
RescUe Here is just a handful of incidents from around the uK and Roi to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. see pages 20–27 for rescues marked and page 13 for a roundup of lifeguard activity....
Category: Articles
A Rough Passage. The Journey of the St. Ives Motor Life-Boat to Her Station
The Jonrney of the St. Ives Motor Life-boat to her Station.
By LIEUT.-COMMANDER H. L. WHEELER, R.N., Southern District Inspector.
WE left Cowes for St. Ives, Cornwall, at noon on the 18th March. On board...
Category: Articles
Celebrating the Isle of Man's Millennium: Port St.Mary Prepares for the Review of the Sail Training Fleet By Hm King Olaf of Norn-Ay August4 1979 Port Erin and Port St.Mary Lifeboats Are Seen In
Celebrating the Isle of Man's millennium: Port St Mary prepares for the review of the Sail Training fleet by HM King Olaf of Norn-ay, August4, 1979. Port Erin and Port St Mary lifeboats are seen in centre of picture taken from an SAR... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
By Invitation: Kirkwall's 70 Foot Clyde Class Lifeboat Visits the Faroe Islands
IT IS THE GREAT AMBITION of F0rOya Bjargingarfelag, the Faroese Lifesaving Society, to develop a lifeboat service as an extension to the coast rescue equipment companies it has already established at various strategic points round this...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 12th April, 1894.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vious Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee