LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Call the doctor!
The RNLI's responsibilities demand medical expertise not only in emergency care – lifeboat crew and lifeguards are often first on scene – but also for the health of our staff and volunteers...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
PORTRUSH, Co. DOWN.-—About 10.40 A..M on 5th December, 1931, a fishing boat was reported to be in difficulties in the Eastern Bay, and the Motor...
Category: Services
Services by Shore-Boats (3)
BURRA ISLE, SHETLANDS. While out haddock fishing in a small open boat from Skeld three men were thrown into the sea when their boat was capsized by a squall. The accident happened at about 7.30 A.M. on the 18th March, 1939, when the boat was...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1948
Yeisons Time of rescued from 1948. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 2. 3.20 p.m. S.S. Silvia Onorata, of Naples. Walmer life-boat stood by vessel „ 4. 2.50 p.m. / and rescued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 80 ,, 4. 7.40 a.m....
Category: Services
A French Matinee In Aid of the Institution
IT is a far cry from the snows of Russia to tke sands of the Sahara, and as far a cry from the Sahara to the coasts of the British Isles. But experiments are now being made to see if a device originally designed for motor transport over the...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 16th May, 1935.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Co-opted Captain Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, Bt., C.B., D.S.O., R.N.V.R., a member of the committee of management.
Received...
Category: Committee
Notes of the Quarter
IN 1957, for the second year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total figure was 716, and the last two years have been the only years in time of peace in which the figure of 700 was exceeded.
Category: Articles
The Equipment of a Life-Boat. (Continued.)
The Sails of a Life-boat are of No. 5 or No. 6 canvas, made from the finest flax, and tanned with bark to render them rot-proof. They are now all cut with a very high peak, and consist in most cases of a jib and standing fore and mizen lugs,...
Category: Articles
The Record of the Branches
LAST year, it will be remembered, a list was published in The lifeboat of the twenty Branches which had sent in the largest aggregate contributions, and a list of eleven Branches selected from those with...
Category: Branches
The Platform Party After the Life-Boat Naming Ceremony at Kilmore Quay Co Wexford Republic of Ireland on 10th June 1972 By Mrs Brian Lenihan In the Presence Of
The platform party after the life-boat naming ceremony at Kilmore Quay, Co. Wexford, Republic of Ireland, on 10th June, 1972, by Mrs, Brian Lenihan, in the presence of the Minister for Transport and Power.
A 37-foot Oakley... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs