LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
David (Dave) Cargill Mbe,
November 1998 David (Dave) Cargill MBE, Arbroath ex-mechanic. Dave joined the RNLI as as mechanic in 1973 a position he held for 22 years. He was awarded the MBE in 1995..
Category: Obituaries
A Year of Endeavour
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the RNLI, brandies and guilds were asked to make some special fund raising effort to help raise the six million pounds needed for the vast boat building programme on which the Institution has embarked...
Category: Donations
The Day After the Wreck of the Alba
The Day After The Wreck of the Alba. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notre Dame de la Mer
On the morning of the 19th of December, 1953, the Margate life-boat North Foreland. Civil Service No XI was launched in a rough sea to go to the help of the French trawler Notre Dame de la Mer. off Boulogne, which was being driven inshore...
Communication By Electric Telegraph and Signals on the Coast
BY the wreck of the Deutschland, the question of better means of communica- tion between outlying stations on the coasts of the United Kingdom and internal bases of supply, has received one more little jog forward into its inevitable ulti-...
Category: Articles
Listings
Olive Laura Deare Mrs Olive Deare A naming ceremony for the E class lifeboat at Gravesend station, on the Thames, took place on Saturday, 26 April at the Fort Gardens. The O Ve Laura Deare is the first E class lifeboat to be improved and...
Category: Articles
Varley Dry Accumulators Limited
The battery that's fitted to the Atlantic The Atlantic 21 was designed for the RNLI to withstand the arduous conditions involved in high speed search and rescue operations.
This special boat needs a very special battery...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Societies Abroad
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Confereri that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Socien The Institution...
Category: Articles
Contents
THE LIFE-BOAT (Est. 1852) All editorial material submitted for consideration with a view to publication in the Journal should be addressed to The Editor, THE LIFE-BOAT, 42 Grosvenor Gardens, London, S.W.1 (Tel. 01-730 0031). Photographs...
Category: Contents
Inaugural Ceremonies: Ireland
A GREAT crowd, reverently absorbed in one of the most beautiful and significant ceremonies associated with the progress of civilization; the aged Bishop of Cloyne, a grand figure, clothed in the dignity of the episcopal robes and ad-...
Category: Inaugurations