LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gifts from Crews
ON the 8th October, 1926, the Aberdovey Life-boat rescued the crew of four of the ketch Madge, of Chester, and saved the vessel. Out of the salvage money received the Crew have given £5 11s. to the Institution.
On...
Category: Donations
Branch Members Raising Funds for the Institution In Chelmsford Shopping Precinct
Branch members raising fundsfor the Institution in Chelmsford shopping precinct.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Football
THE annual match for the " Baring Cup" was played between teams representing the Head Office and the Storeyard on 2nd April, on a ground kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co.
Ltd., at Charlton, Kent. The...
Category: Articles
Broughty Ferry (Dundee):
Broughty Ferry (Dundee): After the handing over on Saturday, October 1, 1983, of the second D class inflatable lifeboat funded by a promotion jointly undertaken in Scotland by Ind Coope and the Co-op, the new inflatable lifeboat took part in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Duchess, a Schooner, Julia, Cornucopia, et al (1)
At 12.30 A.M. on the 7th November the Ramsgate Life-boat Bradford, and steam-tug Aid, proceeded to the Kentish Knock Sand, the master of a fishingsmack having reported that there was a vessel ashore there. The wind was blowing moderately...
Above: Harbour Conditions at Macduff
Above: Harbour conditions at Macduff require the lifeboat to be launched from a special launching truck with hydraulic rig.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lou Mani
JULY 29TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 1 P.M. the coastguard informed the life-boat station that the South Goodwin Light-vessel had reported a small open boat with a crew of two, drifting on to the Goodwin Sands.
A strong S.W. wind...
Survival experience is top teambuilder
The RNLI Sea Survival Experience was named Best Teambuilding Event at the 2010 Eventia Awards.
The experience, which takes place at the Lifeboat College, was developed by RNLI trainers to show corporate groups what it’s...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremony at Montrose
At Montrose on October 26th the Earl of Airlie, Lord Lieutenant of Angus, presided at the naming ceremony of two life-boats, "The Good Hope" which went to the station in 1939, and the "Norman Nasmyth" which went in 1940....
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles (1)
A fishing coble having been disabled by a sudden squall on the morning of the 25th June, when about three-quarters of a mile from the shore, a pilot coble which was near at hand proceeded to her and renderedassistance. A moderate gale was...