LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lester Piggot on No 5 Go Total Entering the Winners Enclosure After the Pains- Wessex Stakes Followed By No 1 Gypsy Dancer (Pat Eddery) Who Was Third Home In This Fourth Race
Lester Piggot on No 5 Go Total entering the winners enclosure after the Pains- Wessex Stakes, followed by No 1 Gypsy Dancer (Pat Eddery) who was third home in this fourth race.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lecture on Life-Boats
4. Richardson's Tubular Life-boat.—The next coast life-boat to be described is "the tubular." By the model of this boat, which is on the table, it will be seen that it is altogether different in principle to any other boat;...
Category: Articles
SERVICES: Exhausting Cliff Service
THK Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was ordered to be launched...
Category: Services
A Winter Passage In a Motor Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 45 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to August 31st, 1935 64,159 A Winter Passage in a Motor Life-boat.
By Mr....
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Otnxrtc.—Bust at His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded In 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII...
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Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—31st October, 1939. It had been reported that a raft with men on board could be seen off Wicklow Head. A strong gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. A rowing skiff put out from Wicklow as well as the motor life-boat...
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Torbay, Devon - At 12.20 a.m. on I4th May, 1967, it was reported that a car had been seen to run over the headland close to the look-out. The life-boat Princess Alexandra of Kent slipped her moorings, with the small boarding boat in tow, at...
Inset: Derek Fowlds and Bill Simons
Inset: Derek Fowlds and Bill Simons faka Heartbeat's Sgt Oscar Blaketon and PC Alt Ventress) officially launch the lifeboat in the traditional style with a bottle of bubbly.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Tulipan's Crew Were Rescued By a R.A.F. Helicopter and Barra Island Life-Boat Was Also Called Out
The Tulipan's Crew Were Rescued By A RAF Helicopter and Barra Island Life-Boat Was Also Called Out. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life Saving Equipment
In the last issue of the Lifeboat you were updated on the state of the RNLI rescue fleet. But this is not the full picture as it misses out major pieces of RNLI rescue equipment. Some have been around for years, some are new arrivals, but...
Category: Articles