LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fundraising
We ask the questions RNLI Lifeboat stations throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland throw open their doors to the public this summer. Visitors will be able to speak to the crews, see the lifeboats and get a taste of the unique atmosphere...
Category: Articles
Painting Life-Boats. General Rules
PAINTING LIFE-BOATS.
General Rules.
1. IT will be desirable, that in or about the month of May in each year, or as soon as fine summer weather shall have fairly set in, and the exercise for the current...
Category: Articles
For Some Time It Has Been the Practice of Apprentice Training Schools to Build
For some time it has been the practice of apprentice training schools to build clinker boarding boats for the Institution to an RNLI design. It is a practice of mutual benefit because clinker is the most skilled form of boat building, and so... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Some Ways of Raising Money
An analysis of the first total raised by Queensferry ladies' guild in the year 1981/82 makes interesting reading. Of the total £1,800, well over £100 was made from each of the following events; a country dance, a cheese and...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
New lifeboats named and dedicated Mudeford -Atlantic 21 Ken DerhamSaturday, 2 February will long be remembered in Mudeford as the day when the station's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat was named Ken Derham. by her namesake. The day was cold and...
Category: Inaugurations
Listings
Blue Peter IV is centre stage CBBC 8/ue Peter presenter Konnie Huq named the latest addition to the RNLI's fleet of Blue Peter-funded lifeboats at the 2005 London Boat Show in January. Gathered round the RNLI exhibition stand, the crowd...
Category: Articles
Top: The Green Lily Finally Founders And The Helicopter Crew Search For Their Comrade
Top: The Green Lily finally founders and the helicopter crew search for their comrade. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
West Division Injured swimmer A SOUTH-WESTERLY NEAR GALE force 7 was blowing on the afternoon of Saturday August 2, 1986, when the honorary secretary of Tenby lifeboat station was told by Milford Haven coastguard that a swimmer off Monkstone...
Category: Services
Below - Have Plans for a New Class of Inshore Lifeboat Been Leaked
Below - Have plans for a new class of inshore lifeboat been leaked from the RNLI's technical office? No. this is nineyear- old Donald Morris with his entry for the Sturminster Newton Carnival. The lifeboat float was built by Donald and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. J. Whitehead and the Mermaid Figurehead of Amazonian Proportions Carved for the M.Y. Romantica,
Mr. J. Whitehead and the mermaid figurehead of Amazonian proportions carved for the m.y. Romantica,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs