LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Belts Used By the Crews of the Life-Belts of the National Life-Belt Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a m«n heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support auother...
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Yla Section
THE Y.L.A., with a growing membership of 7,000, continues to recruit members and with the yachting season in full swing it is hoped that members will do their utmost to recruit yet more names to the books.
By joining the...
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Notes of the Quarter
IT is NOW possible to become a member of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. Up to now anyone interested could become a member of a branch or guild of the R.N.L.I., a governor of the Institution, an honorary vice-president, or a member...
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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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No Picnic
Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...
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‘ I THOUGHT IT WAS MY LAST BREATH’
After a fateful day at the end of June, Uzma Khan was left wondering what would have happened if she hadn’t stepped out onto the sands … if she hadn’t been carrying a mobile phone … or if three volunteers hadn’t gone to her...
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Ten Years After. The Pilgrimage to Dunkirk, 4th June, 1950
The Pilgrimage to Dunkirk, 4th June, 1950. By Commander J. M. Upton, R.D., R.N.R.
THE Margate life-boat Lord South- borough glided down the slipway at eleven in the morning on Saturday, the 3rd of June, to repeat,...
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Coxswain Swan's Broadcast Appeal. A Response of Over £750
A Response of over £750.
ON Sunday, 2nd March, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Institution was allowed to make a three-minute appeal as " the week's good cause." This...
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Membership News
Re-member 1989 The 'Re-member 1989' scheme to fund a new Mersey class lifeboat has got off to a slightly disappointing start, although it is still early days for the appeal.
Although the number of new members coming...
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Shoreline
WE ARE DELIGHTED to be able to publish below a photograph of the lifeboatmen of Blyth, the port at which the 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat RNLB Shoreline is stationed; and on page 81 is reported a fine service in which both Shoreline and...
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