LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Drinkers go over the limit! Publicans and pub customers throughout south east England contributed to a £15,000 donation presented to the RNLI at Margate lifeboat station. Jonathan Neame, director of Kent brewers Shepherd Neame, handed...
Category: Articles
Long-Standing Supporters of the R.N.L.I.
AMONG companies which have given the R.N.L.I. valuable financial support over a number of years are a firm of naval tailors in Harwich, a Leeds brewery, and a Leith firm of shipowners, exporters and importers.
• The Harwich...
Category: Donations
Above: the Site of the Rescue
Above: The site of the rescue Left John Carthy Pictures RNLI/Sue Denny. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
These Men Have One of the Most Demanding Jobs In Britain' the Tenby Lifeboat Crew
These men have one of the most demanding jobs in Britain'. The Tenby lifeboat crew (above) featured in one of two RNLI promotional packs, which have proved extremely worthwhile in recruiting new members.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr Calum Macdonald Former Coxswain of the Stornoway Lifeboat Was One of Three People to Receive the Freedom of the Burgh of Stornoway at the Ceremony
Mr Calum Macdonald Former Coxswain of the Stornoway Lifeboat Was One of Three People To Receive The Freedom of the Burgh of Stornoway at The Ceremony Before A. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Woods of Which a Life-Boat Is Made
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1935 - ... 64,350 The Woods of which a Life-boat is...
Category: Articles
Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend: "Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
Category: Medals
Cb Or Vhf? the Coastguard's View
OVER THE PAST five years, HM Coastguard has been provided with a great deal of very sophisticated VHF radio equipment to cover the International distress and calling frequency and other frequencies in the marine band. This system now covers...
Category: Articles
Progress of the New Fleet
Ix 1949 eleven life-boats were com- pleted and sent to the coast. Another twenty more were under construction when the year ended.
Before the war a life-boat took, on an average, a year to build. After the war the time at...
Category: Articles
The Work of a Life-Boat Inspector
from the service of the Institution in 1920.) THE perfect Inspector of Life-boats should be a man of many parts. First and foremost, he must, of course, be a seaman; but he must add some knowledge of the art of the boatbuilder in order...
Category: Articles