LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lolene Foxley Mbe.
March 1998 lolene Foxley MBE. Elected chairman in 1975 of the then Edgbaston and Harbourne ladies guild and remained an active committee member up to her death. In 1993 she was awarded with a certificate in recognition for her...
Category: Obituaries
Motor Mechanic Edward a Slaughter
Motor Mechanic Edward A. Slaughter who served in the Flamborough lifeboat crew for over 30 years, becoming part-time mechanic in 1935 before becoming the lifeboat's full-time mechanic in 1953, a position he held until 1969. Mr Slaughter...
Category: Obituaries
Racal-Marine
Racal-Marine Supplying the RNLI and the marine industry "/ worldwide with modern, reliable marine electronics which include Decca Navigator receivers and Colour and Monochrome radars - all designed to operate under the most adverse...
Category: Advertisement
The Tyne (Right) and Mersey
self-righting calculations. This is one reason why the Arun and FAB 3 (left) have a proportionally greater superstructure volume than the smaller classes of lifeboat such as the Tyne (right) and Mersey - whose deck is low enough to recover... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
High stakes
Lifeboat crews have noticed that jumping into water from a height is becoming ever more popular around our coasts. The craze, known as tombstoning, has led to 139 incidents for emergency services in the past 5 years, including 12 fatalities...
Category: Articles
Scottish Fishermen's Gift.
Two fiskermea of Fifeshire ver« rewarded by the lastitutioa for towing ia another boat, disabled in » rough sea. They returned the rewards saying, "the restitution requires more funds instead of taking donations from...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
The annual meeting will be held in the Central Hall Westminster, on Thursday, October 25th, and the Duchess of Kent will present the eight gold medals which the Institution awarded during the war to life-boat coxswains for conspicuous...
Category: Meetings
Lagos Interested
The Institution has had a letter from Lagos in Nigeria, signed by Bob Reuben Taiwo, asking for its "free book", as he has heard that the Institution is "one of the belt Royal National Life-boat Institutions in Herts.".<...
Category: Articles
Northward (1)
OCTOBER 2ND. - FRASERBURGH. ABERDEENSHIRE The life-boat was launched twice to the help of the steam trawler Northward, from which she had previously rescued the crew of ten. For details see September 24th, page 103.
A Steamer (6)
MARCH 3RD. - BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
An unknown steamer had been reported heading for rocks east of the harbour, but she seemed to get clear and then was lost in the darkness. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d.