LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Open House
Every two years the RNLI throws open its doors at the Poole Headquarters and Depot to show how it goes about backing the volunteer crews and fundraisers.
This year the event was held on Friday and Saturday the first i and...
Category: Articles
The Tamar Hits the Water During Her Slipway Trials at Tenby's New Boathouse Slipway.
The Tamar hits the water during her slipway trials at Tenby's new boathouse and slipway. The old slipway and boathouse can be seen in the background Photo: Nigel Millard. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mermaid Marine
If the RNLI choose the Mermaid ...
why don't YOU? Mermaid Type 595 (FORD 2704C) marine diesel propulsion engine.
Built to the Royal National Life-boat Institution's strict specification Mermaid...
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Sidelights on Stations
MR. TOM BOWMAN, the assistant tractor driver, Rhyl, had his car stolen from outside the boathouse while he was engaged on a launch on Good Friday. His son and Mr. Peter Hughes, both members of the Life-boat Guild, were in the boathouse at...
Category: Articles
Pye Telecommunications
Pye Telecom breaks the silence barrier.
Without instant communication you cannot properly cope with today's changing situations. Two-way radio communication via Pye personal and mobile radiotelephones keeps you off the...
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Old Custom Revived: During the Fishermen's Harvest Festival
Old custom revived: during the fishermen's harvest festival at St Oswald's Parish Church, Flamborough, on October 4, 1987, the official station telescope was handed over by retiring Coxswain Robert Major (r) to his successor Les... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Lighters
DECEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - SOUTHENDON - SEA, ESSEX. At eight at night information was received from the king’s harbour master at Sheerness that two lighters had parted from their tug and were adrift, with two men on board. A moderate northeast...
Hats Off to 18-Year-Old Model Stephanie Harrison One of the Models at the R.N.L.I. Fashion Show Held at Owens Park Fallowfield In March 1968
by courtesy of] [Manchester Evening News Hats off to 18-year-old model Stephanie Harrison, one of the models at the R.N.L.I.
fashion show held at Owens Park, Fallowfield, in March, 1968. The hatless coxswains are (left to... - View image in PDF
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The Converted Whaler Searanger
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 1.40 p.m. on 7th August, 1966, news wasreceived that a boat had been swamped off Lavernock Point and her three occupants were in the water. At 1.50 the life-boat Rachel and Mary Evans was launched in a strong...
Elblag
Lowestoft, Suffolk - At 11.15 P-mon loth November, 1966, news was received that the Polish motor vessel Elblag, of Szczecin, which was twenty miles south of Lowestoft, had a sick man on board. The life-boat Elizabeth Elson,on temporary duty...