LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

CHILD WAS SICK At 3.45 p.m. on 6th September, 1964, the local doctor received a request from Inishmaan Island to attend to a sick child. There was a slight sea with a gentle north-westerly breeze. It was high water. At 4.30 the life-boat...

RADIO COMMUNICATIONS A VITAL SERVICE TO THE R.N.L.I.

Coastal Radio - the privileged exclusive supplier of M.F. Radio and D.F.

equipment for over 180 R.N.L.I. Lifeboats over the past 15...

RADIO COMMUNICATIONS A VITAL SERVICE TO THE R.N.L.I.

Coastal Radio - the privileged exclusive supplier of M.F. Radio and D.F.

equipment for over 180 R.N.L.I. Lifeboats over the past 15...

(Below) Class reinforced plastic boats are laid up inside a mould so that a prescribed hull shape can be turned out time and again.

Each hull is laid up as a single piece of continuous material from stem to stern, with no... - View image in PDF

The bottle of champagne falls: Ralph and Joy Swann, Ramsgate's new 44' Waveney lifeboat, was named by HRH The Duchess of Kent on Thursday, September 23, 1976. Hampshire Rose, Walmer's 37' 6" Rother lifeboat, with Sir... - View image in PDF

A rum do! Lord Stanley, chairman of the RNLI's Fund Raising Committee, was presented with a cheque for £6,000 at Aberdeen lifeboat station by Mr dune Stewart, district manager of Watsons Rum, as part of the United Rum Merchants/RNLI... - View image in PDF

Fishguard's Trent, 14-03 Blue Peter VII, covers herself with spray while on exercise off the Welsh coast.

Blue Peter VII was funded by 'Blue Peter's' Pieces of Eight appeal, and is the first all-weather... - View image in PDF

Friday 30 June brought glorious weather for Scarborough's lifeboat day and resulted in supporters collecting over £4,000.

The following two days of fundraising activities, which included a barbecue, a raft race and... - View image in PDF