LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1953: the Trawler Sunlight Aground on a Ledge of Rock
1953: The Trawler Sunlight Aground On A Ledge of Rock. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boats of France
ALTHOUGH the French were the first to experiment, as early as 1775, with an 'unsinkable and uncapsizable skiff' (canot insubmersible et inchavirable), they did not develop an organized life-boat service until much later.
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Category: Articles
View of the Deck
The Samuel and Marie Par house, the 46-feet Watson cabin motor life-boat stationed at Salcombe, Devon in 1938.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Index of Advertisers
Apollo Associates .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 607 Bolinders Company Ltd. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 637 Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd. 620...
Category: Index
List of Launches
Le Station-by-station lifeboat launches for June and July 1999 Aberdeen Arun: Jul 2andJu)4 D Class: Jul 2 and Jul 12 Aberdovey Atlantic 2 1 : Jun 7. Jun 24. Jun 26 (twice) and Jul 27 Abersoch Atlantic 2 1 : Jun 4 (twice). Jun 6. Jun 18 and...
Category: Services
A Gift of Gold
The Institution has received, carefully packed in cotton wool, 46 sovereigns and n half sovereigns. All but two have Queen Victoria's head, and their dates range from 1845 to 1901. They came with the message -for those in peril on the...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Richard Evans of Moelfre
The first winner of the gold medal for gallantry for ten years. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The power of the sea
Need some inspiration for your Summer reading list? Here’s a collection of books that celebrate the skills and endurance needed to master our planet’s expansive oceans
For adventurers
Across the Arctic Ocean –...
Category: Articles
Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, visited lifeboat stations at Barrow, Morecambe, Fleetwood, Blackpool and Lytham-St Anne's on Wednesday April 27. At each station he inspected the lifeboat and met lifeboatmen, station... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of Accounts for 1978
A VISUAL REPRESENTATION Full accounts are available from Poole headquarters and a detailed report of the annual general meeting held on May 22 at the National Film Theatre, London, will be published in the autumn issue of THE...
Category: Accounts