LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Belts
No life-boat station can be considered complete without a set of life-belts for the boat's crew, and the several local committees should insist upon having them, and upon the belts being put on, before the men go afloat. The qualities...
Category: Articles
Life-Belts and Swimming
WE have, in previous Numbers of this Journal, advocated the use of life-belts, both on shipboard and in boats, especially in life- boats; and we have recommended the ac- quirement of the art of swimming by every one. As we think the subject...
Category: Articles
Peter Brookes and Colin Evans
Peter Brookes and Colin Evans pulling away from the rest of the fleet to win the annual New Year five-mile row organised by Maldon Little Ship Club in Essex. The event raised LI, 000 for the RNLl.
photograph by courtesy of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Margaret Ann
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
News and Views
Deputy PM takes to the lifeboats! Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott took to the water in the Dover lifeboat recently when he presented the RNLI with a Millennium Product plaque for the Severn class all-weather boat.
The...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Classified
LIFEBOAT CLASSIFIED TIME AND TIDE at your fingertips TIDEMASTER' PILOT • Quart accuracy • Guaranteed working depth 75ft • Clear luminous hands and batons • Automatic calendar • Quick set date change • Tide bezel' monitors tidal state...
Category: Advertisement
Feature Buildling Reflections
It is hard to believe that a year has passed since I concluded my editorial circumnavigation of the RNLI's operational realm. In one respect time has passed quickly, with plenty still going on around the coasts and new, exciting...
Category: Articles
The Wreck of the Trawler Skegness. Eleven Lives Lost on the Yorkshire Coast
Eleven Lives Lost on the Yorkshire Coast.
ON the evening of 24th September, 1935, the steam trawler Skegness, of Hull, returning to Hull from the Faroes, with eleven men on board, went ashore under Speeton Cliffs on the...
Category: Services
The Whitethorn Morris Dancers Donated £25 to the Rnli
The Whitethorn morris dancers donated £25 to the RNLI after performing in the Harrow area last Boxing Day, a traditional busking day. They specialise in traditional north west clog morris dances.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT WORKS INSIDE SURF LINE TO SAVE FISHERMEN Skipper plucked to safety through wheelhouse window in 30ft seas and Force 9 gale Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's silver medal for bravery following...
Category: Services