LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Samaritano
On the night of the 24th September, the services of this valuable life-boat were again called into requisition. At 11 P.M. on that night, the wind blowing a strong gale from N.E. with rain, guns were heard at Rams- gate, in the direction of...
New Life-Boat Engines. The First Life-Boat to Be Fitted With Wireless
By Captain Howard F- J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
IN 1922 the Institution, which, had then had nearly twenty years of experience with Motor Life-boats, designed an engine to meet the special and...
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Sunderland Mechanic Tests Radio-Telephone
Sunderland Mechanic Tests Radio-Telephone. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below Left: An RAF SAR Helicopter With The Trearddur Bay Inshore Lifeboat
Below left: An RAF SAR helicopter with the Trearddur Bay inshore lifeboat. - View image in PDF
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Ben Henshaw and the S.S. Saint Oran
Ramsey, IsIe-of-Man.—At 9.50 on the morning of the 17th of February, 1950, the coastguard telephoned that the motor tanker Ben Henshaw, of London (which was two miles to the north-east) was flying a signal for a doctor. As the weather was...
The Isle of Man Revisited
The RNLI's Assistant PRO Robin Sharp visited the Isle of Man, the Institution's 'ancestral home' and examined how the island's lifeboat service is being adapted to the new generation of lifeboats… At could be said that...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th Oct., 1870: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Meetings
Holland I
Dutch dredger THE DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY of Troon lifeboat station was told by Clyde Coastguard at 1345 on Friday September 12, 1980, that the Dutch dredger Holland I working off Irvine Harbour was breaking her moorings in severe weather...
Welsh Lady II and Sara Terrapin
SPEEDBOAT CAPSIZED At 2.45 p.m. on 6th June, 1964, the lifeboat's mechanic informed the honorary secretary that a vessel, whose position was one mile offshore from the station, had fired two smoke flares. The vessel Welsh Lady II had a...
Survival experience is top teambuilder
The RNLI Sea Survival Experience was named Best Teambuilding Event at the 2010 Eventia Awards.
The experience, which takes place at the Lifeboat College, was developed by RNLI trainers to show corporate groups what it’s...
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