LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 6.—The 41-Feet Beach (Aldeburgh) Type
WHEN the Institution designed two new types of motor life-boat (as described in previous issues of The Life- boat) sufficiently light to be launched off a carriage or the open beach it became possible to use motor power at a large number of...
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Righting Trials of the First 37' Oakley Lifeboat to Be Fitted With Radar
ANOTHER MILESTONE on the path of lifeboat development was passed in May this year when Frank Pen/old Marshall, the 37' Oakley stationed at St Ives, the first of her class to be fitted with radar, successfully passed righting trials and...
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Spotters Guide
The distinctive colours of orange and blue flash past you as the lifeboat launches on another service - you recognise that she is an RNLI vessel, but what type? The Lifeboat brings you the definitive guide to all operational RNLI lifeboat...
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The Destruction of the Scarborough Life-Boat
IN the columns of each number of this Journal we have had the pleasure to record numerous instances of our life-boats' services to shipwrecked crews. When it is remembered under what difficult and dangerous circumstances those services...
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Lifeboat Services
DIFFICULT CONDITIONS OVER BAR Crew member leaps aboard casualty from C class inflatable Helmsman Peter Heading and Crew Member Robert Gorman of Aberystwyth lifeboat station have been awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal for Gallantry...
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Ordinary people doing extraordinary things
Volunteers are very much at the heart of the RNLI. The charity's lifesaving service could not exist without their passion and relies on an army of willing helpers to go out in lifeboats, to fundraise, to promote safety and...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th April, 1860. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.,in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committee.
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Farewell. Memories of Sixty Years
1904 to 1947—a long period, but a very pleasant time of work and progress in life-boat design. For seventeen years before that, I had the privilege of carrying out, under his supervision, the'designs produced by the late G....
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Notes of the Quarter
TWIN ENGINED inflatable lifeboats have been designated the C class. This is to distinguished them from the single engined 15ft 6in D class inflatables, well known all round the coast. All C class boats at the moment are 17ft 6in Zodiac Mk IV...
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