LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Sailing Skiff Rabbit
Margate, Kent.—At 1.44 on the after- noon of the 10th of August, 1957, the coastguard passed on a report from the police that a boat had capsized off Grenham Bay and another boat, with two men on board was trying to tow her. There was a...
Falkenstein and Portslade
Dungeness, Kent. At 9.8 on the morning of the 23rd of May, 1958, the honorary secretary was informed thata vessel was firing red flares a mile and a half west-south-west of Dungeness.
The crew assembled, but as...
Tributes to Life-Boat Crews
MANY letters containing tributes to the work of the life-boat crews are received at the headquarters and bran- ches of the Institution. They are, in fact, too numerous to be quoted regularly, but four letters of very different types received...
Category: Correspondence
Nautical star
TV presenter, writer and adventurer Ben Fogle immersed himself in the RNLI’s past and present during his latest on-screen project …
It’s a crisp, cold January morning off the south Devon coast,...
Category: Articles
News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
Birthday Honours for RNLI three
Three volunteers who have given decades of service to the RNLI were recognised with MBEs in the Queen’s...
Category: Articles
News
Your guide to what's been going on in the world of the RNLI
Words: Anna Burn
Photos: RNLI/(Harrison Bates, Nigel Millard, Neal Somerville)
AGM ROUND-UP
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Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
IN the report which has been recently issued by the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service, for the fiscal year ended 30th June 1884, it is stated that there were then 201 Life-Saving Stations under their management, 156 being on...
Category: Articles
The Record of 1927. A Year of Conspicuous Services
A Year of Conspicuous Services.
THE storms in the latter part of 1927 have supplied the answer, if any were needed, to the question which is sometimes asked whether the gradual replacement of the sailing ship by steam and...
Category: Annual Reports
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part II: on the Stocks
TRADITIONALLY, when building a boat in wood, the first operation is the laying down of the keel from which is built up a framework of stem, transom, bulkheads and other transverse and longitudinal members. When building a small boat in steel...
Category: Articles
Medals of the National Shipwreck Institution
WE have had frequent opportunities to witness the high value which our own countrymen attach to the medals of this Institution, some 600 of which have been voted to them for acts of gallantry; and we have much satisfaction in extracting the...
Category: Medals