LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Twelve Members of Lloyds Bank Branches
Twelve members of Lloyds Bank branches all over the City were among the many hundreds of RNLI supporters who were out selling flags on London Lifeboat Day last March; the Lloyds contingent collected £536.66. The total sum collected on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...
Category: Articles
The Hopper No. 42
— Just before midnight on the 12th-13th September the hopper No. 42, of London, which was making for Ply- mouth to coal, struck on the south side of the Plymouth Breakwater. The Life-boat Eliza Avins was launched to her assistance, and, on...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their ninth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 2nd August, when the Cullercoats Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch.
Over £156 was...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meetings 2002
2002 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Another busy year for the RNLI saw crews answer 6,882 calls and rescue 6,918 people.
Education and safety work is starting to show results and successful trial schemes...
Category: Meetings
The Sailing Ship Ardencraig
The sailing ship Ardencraig, of Glasgow, foundered off Scilly during the afternoon of 8th January. Distress signals were heard from the Bishop Light-house, and the St.
Agnes Life-boat, Charles Deere James, and St....
Tay, of Dundee
During a strong gale from the S.S.E. on the 30th November, it was reported that the schooner Toy, of Dundee, was on shore on the Gaa Sand, at the mouth of the Tay.
The Mary Hartley life-boat was thereupon at once launched,...
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
Launching and Recovery PART II: BEACH LAUNCH by Edward Wake-Walker RNLI Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
ON A CLEAR DAY at Walmer the unaccustomed visitor can be forgiven for doubting his own knowledge of geography when he sees the bold outline of France, seemingly only a pebble's throw across the curving surface of the English Channel....
Category: Articles
SOS on the High Seas
SOME 300 representatives from government and industry in 21 countries attended a New York conference in October, 1970, to discuss ways of providing 100% search and rescue coverage for vessels needing help on the high...
Category: Articles