LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Train One, Save Many
'We have a call out about every eight or nine days and we've been out in some terrible conditions. The worst I can remember was when we were called to a ship that had tipped over because the cargo it was carrying had shifted in the...
Category: Articles
Membership rates increase
If you’re a Shoreline member of the RNLI, the rate of your membership is rising for the first time in 4 years: it will now cost an additional £2. RNLI Governors are being asked to pay an additional £8 per...
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Your Letters
Long lost Barometer I have a small item in my possession which may be of interest to someone, somewhere.
Towards the end of the 1950s, I was on holiday in Folkestone, Kent and picked up, half buried in the shingle, what...
Category: Correspondence
Two Magnificent Efforts By Children In Ipswich Have Raised Enough Money to Buy 112 Sets of Ear Defenders for Lifeboat Crews the Top Three Classes Ofwhitehouse Infa
Two magnificent efforts by children in Ipswich have raised enough money to buy 112 sets of ear defenders for lifeboat crews. The top three classes ofWhitehouse Infants School hoped to raised £100 with a sponsored spell; they actually... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Twenty-Five Years of Life-Boat Work. By Captain Basil Hall, R.N. Late Inspector of Life-Boats
IT was in February, 1895, that I first entered " the House of the Institution " in order to submit my name as a candidate for the vacancy of District Inspector of Life-boats, caused by a decision of the Committee of Manage- ment to...
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London Visitor
The new 70-foot steel life-boat 70-002 at Tower Pier, London, in March. Her visit to London was referred to at the annual meeting of the Institution on 20th April.. - View image in PDF
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The long view
One hundred years on from the sinking of RMS Titanic we are reminded of the continuing perils of the sea with the recent with the Costa Concordia
Both incidents involved loss of life, with...
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