LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WHITBY.—The Whitby No. 2. Life-boat was rapidly becoming unfit for further ser- vice, and it has been replaced by another 8-oared boat, 30 feet long, and 7 feet -t inches wide, which was forwarded to the station, with a transporting-carriage...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 14th June, 1906.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
VOL—KINGSGATE.
The Thomas Chapman, 28 feet long, 6 feet beam, 6 oars.
THE next Life-boat Station westward from Mar- gate, of which we gave some account in the Life- boat Journal for the last quarter, is...
Category: Articles
BRINGING 200 TONNES OF TRAWLER HOME
Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …
The...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....
Category: Medals
If You Are a Full Off-Shore Or Associate Member of the Rnli You Are Entitled to Wear Or Show: (Left) a 5" Dinghy Burgee In Dark Blue With Lifeboat Flag Price £125; a 12"
you are a full, off-shore or associate member of the RNLI, you are entitled to wear or show: (left) a 5" dinghy burgee in dark blue with lifeboat flag, price £1.25; a 12" or 8" hoist flag in dark blue with lifeboat flag... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Travelscope.
READER HOLIDAYS - BY AIR The Best of America & Canada We are delighted to offer you the opportunity to enjoy the very best of America and Canada, countries filled wrth once-in-a-llfeUme opportunities. Whether you're looking lor...
Category: Advertisement
The Plymouth Motor Life-Boat: Inaugural Ceremony
THE Inaugural Ceremony, on 12th July, of the Plymouth Motor Life-boat, the third Life-boat to be built of the 60- feet Barnett Twin Screw type, was one of the most successful ever held. It took place in Plymouth's Civic Week, for which...
Category: Inaugurations
Mrs B Braithwaite,
Mrs B Braithwaite, convener of the lifeboat shop in Edinburgh and supporter of the RNLI for many years. Mrs Braithwaite was a guild member for over 25 years and was awarded the Institution's Silver badge in 1981..
Category: Obituaries
Blue Marlin
Ramsgate, Kent - At 8.13 p.m. on 26th June, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a small boat, which had been fishing one mile north west of the North Goodwin lightvessel, appeared to have broken down, and the occupants were...