LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (105)
JULY 15TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £4 0s. 6d..
AGM date set
The RNLI Annual General Meeting and Annual Presentation of Awards will take place on 17 May at the Barbican in London.
RNLI Governors will be contacted individually and invited to request tickets to both events. All other...
Category: Articles
Ideal Home Exhibition
EARL'S COURT LONDON, MARCH 6-31 FOR THE FIRST TIME, the RNL1 had a stand at the Ideal Home Exhibition this year. Modest in size, and situated on the balcony floor, it was a market stall, colourful with souvenirs and Shoreline display....
Category: Articles
What Are Lifeboats Made Of? By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
For modern boats there is a choice. Wood, glass reinforced plastic, steel and aluminium are all very good, well tried materials. The first three have all been used for RNLI lifeboat hulls while aluminium is used for superstructures. All have...
Category: Articles
Donaghadee Harbour During the Naming of City of Belfast Photograph By Courtesy of Colin Watson
Donaghadee harbour during the naming of City of Belfast, photograph by courtesy of Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mfv St.Patrick Taking Water Into Her Engine Room Was Towed Into Harbour on November 12 1975 By the 44' Waveney Lifeboat 40-001 on Temporary Duty at Great Yarmo
MFV St Patrick, taking water into her engine room, was towed into harbour on November 12, 1975, by the 44' Waveney lifeboat 40-001, on temporary duty at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston.
The lifeboat was under the command... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A New Civil Service Life-Boat
A NEW motor life-boat, the gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, has been completed this year and stationed at Walmer, Kent. There are now six motor life-boats on the coast built out of the Fund—three on the English coast, at Walmer and...
Category: Inaugurations
Income and Expenditure for 1935
Expenditure.
Life-boats :— £ s. d. £ s. d.
New Life-boats for the following stations :—On account— Aith, Broughty Ferry, Cromer, Gourdon, Hythe, Ilfra- combe, North Sunderland...
Category: Accounts
(Below) An Atlantic 21
(below) An Atlantic 21 lifeboat airborne in trials at the Shingle Bank off the Isle of Wight. The Atlantic 21 has enough speed, up to 30 knots, to run clear of unstable seas in shallow water or steer round breaking crests when going to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 5th Oct 1871 THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair. j Bead and approved the Minutes of the previous j Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees. I Also the Report of...
Category: Committee