LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. M.F.V. No. 1106
Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland.
•—At 7.59 on the evening of the 10th of November, 1952, the coastguard telephoned that H.M. M.F.V. No. 1106 had run aground off Spittal Point, and at 8.20 the life-boat J. and W. was...
All lifeboats great and small
Who could help you find a lifeboat, build a scale model of one or even uncover the adventures of a former lifesaving craft?
There’s one branch of the RNLI whose members are brought together not...
Category: Articles
Postscript : Extracts from An Article By Captain Basil Hall An Inspector of Lifeboats at the Turn of the Century
Following the publication in the winter issue of THE LIFEBOAT of a description of the work of present-day divisional inspectors of lifeboats, here are some extracts from an article by the late Captain Basil Hall, RN, a one-time inspector of...
Category: Articles
Revision of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: An Introduction to An Introduction By Leslie J Vipond Inspector Mobile Training Unit
Coming into force 1200 zone time, July 15, 1977 AN INTRODUCTION TO AN INTRODUCTION by Leslie J. Vipond Inspector, Mobile Training Unit AS A YOUNG MAN, determined to follow the sea as a career, I grew up to fear the 'Articles'. The...
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A Lifeboat Village at Earls Court
'WELCOME TO THE BOAT SHOW! we are particularly pleased that in this our 21st anniversary year we are featuring the Royal National Life-boat Institution which is, in turn, celebrating its own 150th year.' Thus, on New Year's Day,...
Category: Articles
Tulip Lifeboat: at Spalding Flower Parade By Theo Stibbons Chairman Spalding and District Branch
SINCE THE FORMATION of Spalding and District branch five years ago we have always spent the second weekend in May working very hard raising money for the RNLI at various stalls dotted around the route of the spectacular Spalding Flower...
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In at the deep end
What's it like to join lifeboat volunteers in the sea survival pool? Philly Byrde finds out ...
'This is your Captain speaking. Abandon ship! abandon ship!' Oh good. This is exactly...
Category: Articles
Grace Darling's Coble. A Permanent Home at Bamburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 90 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 104 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 27th November, 1930 62,443 Grace Darling's Coble.
A...
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Letters (Continued from Page 65)
where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.
Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...
Category: Correspondence
Looking at Lifeboats
With the traditional double-ended lifeboat now replaced by fast lifeboats at every one of the Institution's stations RNLI Naval Architect Keith Thatcher takes a look at two of the classes which dominated the Institution's...
Category: Articles