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Two Rafts

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

FEBRUARY 8TH. - THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. A northerly gale was blowing, with high confused seas and storms of snow and sleet when, at 2.30 in the afternoon, the Wick coastguard rang up the life-boat station to say that two miles to seaward of...

A Sailing Dinghy (1)

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Dinghy and canoe A SAILING DINGHY with two boys on board capsized in a fresh south westerly breeze, force 5, about three miles west north west of Redcar lifeboat station on Saturday May 22. The D class lifeboat launched at 1612 manned by...

Naming Ceremonies In Ireland

Date: Autumn 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 356

FOUR life-boats were named in Ireland in August and September, 1950, at Donaghadee, Clogher Head, Baltimore and Arranmore.

Donaghadee The new Donaghadee life-boat has been built out of a gift from Lady Kelly, of...

Category: Inaugurations

Island Excellence

Date: Autumn 2005

Volume: 60

Issue: 574

The RNLI's fleet of inshore lifeboats do sterling service 365 days a year - but who is responsible for the creation of such trusted workhorses? The volunteers so rightly renowned for their skill and bravery in saving lives at sea rely...

Category: Articles

Brita, a Shetland Type Motor Boat, and Angling Boat Ondermining

Date: Spring 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 500

Triple call-out NOVEMBER 1, 1986 proved to be a cold day, with a partly overcast sky and anorth-westerly wind, force 5 to 6 blowing along the Essex coast.

At 1107 Thames coastguard alerted the deputy launching authority of...

Come visit us!

Date: Summer 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 596 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2011

Ice cream and face paints. Barbecues and bunting. There’s something very traditional about a lifeboat station open day, but there's also a definite 21st-century edge

In the pages of the...

Category: Articles

Ceremonies

Date: Spring 1994

Volume: 53

Issue: 528

The naming of Arbroath's new Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape went ahead on 22 April 1994 despite the unfortunate accident sustained by the namer, HRH Princess Alexandra, two days before the ceremony. The Countess of Airlie cvo, wife of...

Category: Inaugurations

Life-Boat Transporting Carriage

Date: April 1861

Volume: 04

Issue: 40

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: April 1859

Volume: 04

Issue: 32

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED by THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...

Category: Articles

(Above! the Sophisticated Fibre Reinforced Composite (Frc) Construction Gives Light Weight With Strength But Needs Much Planning at the Design Stage

Date: Spring 1991

Volume: 52

Issue: 516

(Above!. The sophisticated fibre reinforced composite (FRC) construction gives light weight with strength, but needs much planning at the design stage.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs