LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Above! the Sophisticated Fibre Reinforced Composite (Frc) Construction Gives Light Weight With Strength But Needs Much Planning at the Design Stage
(Above!. The sophisticated fibre reinforced composite (FRC) construction gives light weight with strength, but needs much planning at the design stage.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Familiarisation With the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat By Chris Rundle
AN ABILITY TO KEEP ONE'S HEAD, regardless, seems to be one of the basic qualifications lifeboatmen need.
Especially when they find their world suddenly turned upside down.
Capsizing is not an everyday...
Category: Articles
Dispatches
Dispatches ’Twas the season … Thousands of RNLI volunteers around the UK and Republic of Ireland were on call over the recent holiday period. It’s too early for 2006 statistics, but from Christmas Eve 2005 to 2 January 2006 volunteer...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th May, 1864. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
Waiting for Rescue By J D Sleightholme
This two-part article, published earlier this year in Yachting Monthly and reproduced here by kind permission of the editor, Andrew Bray, and the author, takes a look at rescues from a yachtsman's point of view and asks how crews should...
Category: Articles
In This Issue
Feature: Rapid response 2 The RNLI's flood relief work at home and abroad News 7 Including the latest on the new Tamar class Books 12 Including a fitting tribute to the late Helen Tew Feature: 'Gallant rescue by ladies' 14...
Category: Contents
Signals for Pilots
Required to be used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the ISth section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873, if a vessel requires the services of a Pilot.
"In the Day-time.—The...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 14th of March, 1956, with Lord Howe, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
For Major Osman Gabriel (Right) of Hove Who Donated Her to the RNLI the Successful Selfrighting Trials Carried Out at Littlehampton on 8th September 1972 on The
For Major Osman Gabriel (right) of Hove, who donated her to the R.N.L.I., the successful selfrighting trials carried out at Littlehampton on 8th September, 1972, on the Pother class life-boat of that name which he witnessed must have been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and First Annual General Meeting of the Governors of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 20th March, at 2.45 P.M., the Right Hon. Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister, K.B.E., M.C., M.P...
Category: Meetings