LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Women Launchers of Dungeness
[This interview was broadcast in the B.B.C. programme Radio Newsreel on 19th of March, 1953, when Mr. Valentine Selsey of the B.B.C. spoke to Miss Madge Tart and Mrs. Ellen Tart, of Dungeness. It is reproduced by the courtesy of the B.B.C.] ...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st September, 1881.
Sir EDWARD PERROTT, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee
The Prototype 14M Fast Afloat Boat (Fab 4) Is at Present Being Fitted Out at William Osborne's Yard In Littlehampton See Page 90 for Details of the 17M Fab 3 No
The prototype 14m Fast Afloat Boat (FAB 4) is at present being fitted out at William Osborne's yard in Littlehampton. See page 90 for details of the 17m FAB 3, now afloat for trials.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature: RNLI Family
They're some of the RNLI's most devoted supporters. They love the lifeboats.
They're hungry for knowledge about lifeboats. Some of them give all the money they own to the RNLI. They often write to Stormy Stan...
Category: Articles
Brave new world
Lifesavers from across Asia and Africa are sharing new-found skills with their lifesaving organisations, thanks to a course run by the RNLI.
An estimated 1.2M people drown around the world every year – more than the number...
Category: Articles
Wreck Chart of the British Isles for the Year 1908-1909
- _ (_ 0 1908-1909/9 SHOWING ALSO THE PRESENT LIFE BOAT STATIONS.OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION
Category: Charts
Notes of the Quarter
That the life-boat service is busier every year is now becoming a clearly established fact, and it received further confirmation in the first six months of the present year. In 1965 an all-time record for launches was established, yet there...
Category: Articles
Rollo of Braye, Solveig and French Yacht Pupas
Long night at sea in poor visibility Alderney South West Division Alderney's Waveney class lifeboatLoww Marches! of Round Table spent seven hours at sea on the night of 8/9 July attending four separate calls in poor visibility, which was...
The Help of Shipowners
IN The Lifeboat for June, 1923, a list was published of launches of Life-boats and assemblies of Crews during the first four months of that year, with the names of the vessels in question and of their owners, and the amount of the...
Category: Donations
The Prince of Wales In Scotland. National Life-Boat Assembly In Edinburgh. Life-Boat Ball In Glasgow
ON 21st November last, H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G., paid a special visit to Scotland, as President of the Institution, to attend a Scottish National Life-boat Assembly in Edinburgh and a Life-boat Ball, on the same day, in...
Category: Meetings