LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Launch St. Patrick and The Dredger Teardach
LIFE-BOAT OUT FOR 17 HOURS Galway Bay, Co. Galway. At 11.10 on the evening of Thursday the 29th of August, 1963, the honorary secretary received a telephone message from the harbour master at Galway that the 35-foot launch St. Patrick of...
Lifeboat Lottery
The autumn 2005 draw was the most successful ever. Thank you! The income for the RNLI was a record-breaking £600,000-plus in just one draw. Thank you to all our readers who participated for helping to make this...
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RNLI goes to Chile
RNLI Operations Director Michael Vlasto recently attended an International Maritime Rescue Federation meeting to address global lifesaving issues.
The Chilean lifeboat service in Valparaiso hosted the event and took the...
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The Kind of Conditions In Which Medals Are Earned... the St.Mary's Lifeboat Goes to the Aid of a Yacht In the Service Which Won Her Coxswain, Barry Bennett His Br
The kind of conditions in which medals are earned... The St Mary's lifeboat goes to the aid of a yacht in the service which won her coxswain, Barry Bennett his Bronze Medal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: the Lifeboat Fund's 41St.Lifeboat, the Princess Royal
Above: The Lifeboat Fund's 4 7sr lifeboat, The Princess Royal (Civil Service No 41), is put through her paces at St Ives in Cornwall. - View image in PDF
Pholo floyal Bank ol Scotland / flick Tom Im son. - View image in PDF
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The Nictaux, of St Johns
On the 13th March, during a strong S.W. wind, the ship Nictaux, of St. John's, N.B., struck on James's Bank, about four miles from South- port. The Jessie. Knowles life-boat quickly went off, and, with the assistance of two...
Richard Davies, Coxswain of Cromer Lifeboat
I Richard Da vies, coxswain of Cromer lifeboat, first joined the crew in 1962 and then served as second coxswain from 1975 until his appointment as coxswain in 1976. Richard was also a crew member of the station's inshore lifeboat from... - View image in PDF
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Eleven Years on a Look at the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Some of Those Who Know Her Well
THE ATLANTIC 21 rigid inflatable has proved one of the most successful of the Institution's modern lifeboats and 30 are now on station. With an overall length of 22ft 9in, a rigid GRP hull and inflatable neoprene tube 'bulwarks',...
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Prototypes of a New Fast Slipway Lifeboat
WITH THE TIME APPROACHING when the RNLI's 46ft 9in and 47ft Watson class housed lifeboats will reach the end of their station lives, preparations have been going ahead over the past few years for their replacement by a new fast slipway...
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