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The Insurance Boating Picture

Date: January 1972

Volume: 42

Issue: 438

BOATING is rapidly growing in popularity.

Thousands have gone afloat for the first time this year. Doubtless next year thousands more will be doing likewise. In all the excitement of selecting and buying a craft of one kind...

Category: Articles

Fig I: Bilge Keels Port and Starboard Take Weight of Hull So That Mild Steel Ballast Keel Can Be Slid Into Place

Date: Spring 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 464

Fig. I: Bilge keels, port and starboard, take weight of hull so that mild steel ballast keel can be slid into place.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Penlee: the Loss of Solomon Browne and Her Crew December 19 1981

Date: Winter 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 479

PENLEE LIFEBOAT, the 47ft Watson class Solomon Browne, with her coxswain, Trevelyan Richards, and all on board, was lost on the night of Saturday December 19 during a service to the 1,400 ton coaster Union Star, registered in...

Category: Articles

Three Men Jump from a Fishing Vessel

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

AT 5.2.3 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, a man at Aberdovey telephoned the Aberystwyth, Cardi- ganshire, life-boat station to say that a fishing vessel was in difficulties between Towyn and Aberdovey. Immediately afterwards the...

Category: Services

The Fund Raisers

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

Fair weather or foul During Hoylake lifeboat station's open day last August it was a case of 'What shall we look at first?' And with so much to see and do it must have been a hard choice for many of the 10,000 people who went...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat

Date: August 1891

Volume: 14

Issue: 161

Wildly roared the rolling billows, Surging waves rose high o'erhead; Helpless, in that hour of danger, On—the gallant vessel sped.

Sails were riven, masts were broken, By the tempest's fearful power ; Fruitless...

Category: Poetry

Cover Picture

Date: Winter 1993

Volume: 53

Issue: 523

by Rick Tomlinson/ Rothmans Sailing Donaghadee's Arun Class lifeboat City of Belfast shows her mettle in some heavy weather near her station.

Next Issue: The Summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT will appear in July 1993, and... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: July 1868

Volume: 06

Issue: 69

SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a lifeboat station at this place. The life-boat is 36 feet long, 9 feet wide, and rows 12 oars double-banked. A commodious and substantial boat-house has been erected, with a...

Category: Articles

Additional Stations and New Life-Boats

Date: July 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 53

PALLING.—A new 12-oared life-boat has been placed at Palling, on the Norfolk Coast, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in lieu of a smaller one previously there.

The cost of this boat and her carriage, together with a...

Category: Articles

Scotland Community News

Date: Summer 2019

Volume: 61

Issue: 628 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2019

Welcome to your community news for Scotland. For all the latest from where you are, head to RNLI.org/news

Photos: The Press and Journal, RNLI/(Buckie, Longhope, Mary Harris)

Local stations mark 50th...

Category: Articles