LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Doctors In Life-Boats
CATASTROPHE comes quickly at sea. On any dark stormy night a doctor's bed- side telephone may ring and the urgent voice of a coastguard may ask for immediate medical assistance to a ship several miles from shore. If he agrees, and the...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting. Life-Boatmen Were Honoured
Life-Boatmen Were Honoured During 1964 rescue craft of the Royal National Life-boat Institution received more service calls than in any year since the foundation of the Institution in 1824. This was reported by Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham...
Category: Meetings
Technical Developments
first inflatables were introduced in 1962, particularly as regards floorboards and the construction and maintenance of the craft.
In 1968 the Institution commissioned the design of a fast rigid hull for inshore...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services Around the World
Those who explain the RNLI and its role to the uninitiated are frequently asked: 'how do other countries do it?' Can there be anywhere else in the world where the considerable cost of running a lifeboat service is met entirely...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
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FEBRUARY 6TH. - ALDEBURGH, SUFFOLK.
A very heavy explosion had been heard five to six miles E.S.E. of Aldeburgh.
The life-boat found a large patch of oil or coal dust and followed it for two miles, but...
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
As announced in the last issue of The Lifeboat, the Committee of Management decided in May that every Life-boat Station, on the completion of a hundred years, should be presented with a Vellum to be hung in the Town Hall or other public...
Category: Articles
Atlantic 21 Inshore Lifeboat Developed By Rnli from a Design Originated at Atlantic College South Wales Hull Flat-Bottomed for Beaching Is Marine Ply Or Grp With Infla
Atlantic 21 inshore lifeboat developed by RNLI from a design originated at Atlantic College, South Wales. Hull, flat-bottomed for beaching, is marine ply or grp with inflatable topsides. Console seat for crew of three contains radio. Speed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
Category: Articles
Index to the Branches
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Category: Branches