LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Winter Sponsored Raft Race on the River Dee Organised By the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club Raised £380 for Aberdeen's New Arun Lifeboat Bp Fortie
A winter sponsored raft race on the River Dee organised by the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club raised £380 for Aberdeen's new Arun lifeboat BP Forties. The 27 starters were sent on their way by Coxswain Albert Bird, who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notre Dame de Fatima
On the 8th of November, 1956, the St. David's life-boat was launched to help the French trawler Notre Dame de Fatima, which was in distress three miles south-west of Skokholm light.
The life-boat rescued the trawler'...
Fundraising
A light in the darkness As announced in the spring 2005 issue of the Lifeboat, the RNLI ran an advertisement on selected cable and satellite TV channels during April.
Filmed as if from the perspective of a casualty...
Category: Articles
Duke Senior
WHITSTABLE, Sunday January 19, 1986: a 24ft fishing boat, Duke Senior, with a party of anglers on board ran aground outside the harbour in a strong westerly force 9 gale. She was later re-floated by the rising tide and at 1417 she was...
Lifeboat Services
North Western Division Storm A YACHT IN DISTRESS 23 nautical miles south west of Skerries Lighthouse was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1310 on Saturday, September 11, 1976. The bulk...
Category: Services
The American Way
Edward Wake-Walker, the RNLI's Public Relations Officer, visited the United States to look at...
Charities - the American Way The PRO'S visit to the USA was a Churchill Travelling Fellowship, and the entire costs of...
Category: Articles
The Value of a Life
The Cost of the Life-boat Service compared with the Value of the Lives Saved.
No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, or a life risked. But certain calculations can be made, and have been made, by Insurance...
Category: Articles
After Cockpit Well: Fig 4 (Right) Side Decks
After cockpit well: Fig. 3 (left) Beams and, Fig. 4 (right) side decks are fitted. Straight run back of after end of cartings, inboard of side decks, will take sliding wheelhouse doors. All spaces under beams will be filled with shaped,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Contents
PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 198 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 199 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 199 NORWEGIAN LIFE-BOAT ANNIVERSARY 2O2 GALWAY tIFE-BOAT MEETS ATLANTIC ROWERS 2O6 BROTHERS IN IRB SAVE THREE 208 LIGHTHOUSE MISSION 209 NEW WAYS OF RAISING MONEY 213...
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Books
• There is a rich seam of historical booklets to report this autumn: In recent years it has been recognised that a boat specifically for lifesaving was established at Formby Point on the approaches to Liverpool as early as 1776....
Category: Articles