LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prize Winning Essay
Miss GILLIAN ELLIOTT, of Palsgrave County Modern School, Scarborough, Yorkshire, won the first prize in the competition for the best essay on the Life-boat Service organised by the Institution. The competition was open to boys and girls up...
Category: Articles
A Night on the Goodwins
[This article appeared in The Lancet for 29th, June 1946, in the feature "In England Now," and is reproduced by kind permission of the author and the editor of The Lancet.] OCCASIONALLY we read in our daily paper "The...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EXMOUTH, DEVON.—A new Life-boat has been placed on this Station, in lieu of the old boat, and the gift by Mrs. JOSEPH SOMES of Annery House, North Devon, of 3,0001. to the Institution to defray the cost of a Life-boat and its permanent...
Category: Articles
Waterballasting for Inshore Lifeboats
ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS of inflatable and semi-rigid boats which makes them particularly suitable for rescue work at sea is their inherent stability; and the lower in the water they are, with their wetted beam increased, the greater their...
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November
Launches 22. Lives rescued 7.
NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.
During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and...
Category: Services
Summary of Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 15th March, 1928.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution : Miss A. Hall (additional donation) . . £50 To be...
Category: Committee
Elmela (1)
Aground on Goodwins REPORTS OF SHIP'S LIGHTS in the vicinity of East Goodwin Buoy were passed to the honorary secretary of Walmer lifeboat station by Dover Straits Coastguard at 2130 on Saturday December 10, 1977. The East Goodwin...
Our Merchant Seamen
THE Committee of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society have published the following additional appeal on behalf of the establishment of an Asylum or Hospital, for aged Mariners at Belvedere, near Gravesend.
A...
Category: Committee
Awards Presented By Countess Mountbatten
at the Royal Festival Hall on 16 May 1989 [ Bronze Medals for Gallantry Helmsman Alan Clarke, Hunstanton, Norfolk.
On 7 February 1988 the Hunstanton Atlantic 21 class lifeboat Spirit of America took off an injured man from...
Category: Awards
Features
cLose UP Nor any drop to drink to the surprise of many, RnLi lifeboat crews headed inland this summer, responding to a different kind of emergency. Carol Waterkeyn fi nds out what was going on What can be worse than losing your home and...
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