LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Around and about the RNLI Youngest crew member? Jonathan Foster achieved a long-held ambition when he joined the crew of Staithes lifeboat - the Atlantic 21 Ellis Sinclair-on his 17th birthday .
Clem James, station honorary...
Category: Articles
TOWN & COUNTRY
A TOWN & COUNTRY DRIVEWAY Simp Driveways money can buy Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique libre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and...
Category: Advertisement
Pulling a Bird!
Denis Twomey, RNLI area organiser for the South West, and 74 students from Bristol University Air Squadron recently managed to pull a 65 tonne Hercules aircraft a mile along runway 24 at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire.
The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: January 8 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: February 22 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: November 7 Alderney, Channel Islands Relief 44ft Waveney ON 1002: January 28 Amble, Northumberland 44ft Waveney ON...
Category: Services
Head Protection for Lifeboat Crews By Stuart Welford Btbch Mimcche Mrina Research and Development Officer Rnli
Research and Development Officer, RNLI IMAGINE A JANUARY AFTERNOON. Not much wind, but a cold front forecast; the light will fade in a couple of hours; wind and sea will be getting up and the temperature is dropping all the...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
FOR SHORELINE this year's London International Boat Show was the best ever: through the efforts of the band of voluntary workers who gave up a fortnight of their time to help us we signed on 1,153 new members, and I would like to thank...
Category: Articles
To Give His Mg
To give his MG. TC, the bodvwork of which he had been re-building, a 'jolly good thrudging', Bob Shaw suggested a run from John O Groats to Land's End in aid of the lifeboats; Ian Horsefield said he would go along as second... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Endeavour, Noel, Venus, Prosperity, Progress, et al
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 4 A.M. on the 22nd April eight motor fishing boats went to sea in calm weather. Later on the wind rose considerably from the N.E., bringing a strong sea, accompanied by heavy showers of snow. As the harbour entrance...
Life-Boat Prospects In the Baltic
IN the July Number of the Life-Boat Journal for 1852, will be found a brief account of the Foreign Life-boat Stations on the coasts of France, Belgium, Holland, and Denmark; we are gratified to learn from a recent traveller, that there is a...
Category: Correspondence
Digital Donations
In these difficult economic times, some traditional ways of giving have seen a decline. We have, however, seen a very welcome 20% year-on-year growth in online donations.
Donating to charities online is becoming more...
Category: Articles