LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
How Can I Help the Institution? A Note for Keen Honorary Secretaries and Workers
II* PLACE AUX DAMES As I pointed out in my first article, no Branch will be really effective—though it may, perchance, be technically effi- cient as a Station—nor will it exercise the far-reaching influence which should belong to it unless...
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RESCUE
Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards carry out thousands of rescues every year (see launches on page 36). Here are just some of those caught on camera, and see the list below for more reports:
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A Century Ago
BROWSING through earlier issues of THE LIFE-BOAT is always a fascinating occupation.
Recently we have been sent to the files in search of information on the old tubular life-boats, in which several members of the public...
Category: Articles
H.M. Submarine Alliance, 1385 Tons, Aground on Bembridge Ledge, Isle of Wight on 12th January 1968 When the Local Life-Boat Pictured Here Stood By the Submarine Un
H.M. Submarine Alliance, 1,385 tons, aground on Bembridge ledge, Isle of Wight, on 12th January, 1968, when the local life-boat, pictured here, stood by the submarine until she was refloated. A letter of thanks to the R.N.L.I. from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
During the Day. the Barbican Was Filled With Rnli Displays
During the day. she Barbican -asfilled with RNLJ displays and siunds including souvenir sales and Sea Safety information. Below - Gill Beaumont, Youlh Pronwition Officer, gives advice and assistance on all aspects the RNU'syouih... - View image in PDF
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H.M.S. Birdham
At 2.52 p.m. on 23rd June, 1967, a message was received that a naval vessel was on fire off the Cock of Arran. An amended position of the casualty was given as between Skipness Point and Lochranza. The life-boat City of Glasgow II slipped...
Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite
LlEUTENA'NT-COLONEL CLEMENT RlCH- ARD SATTERTHWAITE, O.B.E., late of the Royal Engineers, who was deputy secretary of the Institution from 1925 to 1931, and secretary from 1931 to 1946, died in his sleep on the 5th of May, 1953. He was...
Category: Obituaries
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 6th April, 1865. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., r.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Category: Committee
Dutch Life-Boat Losses
Ix the gales of last November, and again in January of this year, the Dutch Life-boat Service did magnificent work, but, like our own Service, it suffered heavy loss.
The same terrible gales which struck our own coasts...
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Cb Or Vhf? the Coastguard's View
OVER THE PAST five years, HM Coastguard has been provided with a great deal of very sophisticated VHF radio equipment to cover the International distress and calling frequency and other frequencies in the marine band. This system now covers...
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