LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Medallists (From Front I to R) Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan (First Row) Motor Mechanic Bill Sayers Assistant Mechanic Ronald Sayers Crew Member Mi
The Medallists (from front, I. to r.) Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan. (First row) Motor Mechanic Bill Sayers, Assistant Mechanic Ronald Sayers, Crew Member Michael Storey and Crew Member Peter Jordan, Humber. (Second row) Second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 15th day of March, 1860, Rear-Admiral the Right Hon. Earl of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., V.P., in the Chair, the following Report...
Category: Annual Reports
Gaymel the Professional Paint
PROTECTED BY GAY'S PAINTS FOR OVER HALF A CENTURY The superiority and extreme quality of Gay's paint is such that for well over 50 years Gay's products have been used by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to protect and...
Category: Advertisement
An Air-Sea Rescue launch
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 12.30 on the afternoon of the 29th of September, 1960, the Royal Air Force detachment at Tenby requested the use of the life- boat Henry Comber Brown to tow in one of their air-sea rescue launches, which had broken...
Broughty Ferry (Dundee):
Broughty Ferry (Dundee): After the handing over on Saturday, October 1, 1983, of the second D class inflatable lifeboat funded by a promotion jointly undertaken in Scotland by Ind Coope and the Co-op, the new inflatable lifeboat took part in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Through the Good Offices
Through the good offices of Terry Ferbrache, manager of Fletchersports, a section of the Royal Marines from Plymouth presented a memorable evening of music at a dance organised by the Guernsey ladies' guild. During the evening the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Scott Bader
Great Crystic Boats! Arun Class GRP Lifeboat for RNLI Crystic polyester resin was used for the GRP hull,decks and superstructure of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's first all-GRP offshore lifeboat - a 54ft Arun Class...
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Hasting Double
Hastings’ relief Mersey class lifeboat Royal Shipwright was called out on two medevacs in the same week.
On 12 March, the lifeboat crew brought a fisherman safely ashore, having stabilised his injured ankle. This was the...
Category: Articles
Greek Medal for the Institution
To the foreign honours conferred on the Institution on the occasion of its Centenary has now to be added a silver medal from Greece. On 12th January of this year the Naval A.D.C. to the Greek President wrote : " The President has...
Category: Awards
Shoreline
Shoreline Section FOR SHORELINE each new year is welcomed in by the Boat Show at Earls Court, early in January. As usual a voluntary Shoreline team was manning our stand for the full 11 days, and very well they did, too. We made an excellent...
Category: Articles