LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Looking Across One Corner of Machine Shop to Area Where Lifejackets Are Serviced and Ilbs Held for Distribution to the Coast; All Major Ilb Servicing Is Done at Cowes
Looking across one corner of machine shop to area where lifejackets are serviced and ILBs held for distribution to the coast; all major ILB servicing is done at Cowes.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Minesweeper Waverley
APRIL 9TH. - LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK.
At 6.50 P.M. the assistant mechanic reported a small boat in difficulties. A strong N.N.W.
wind was blowing, and the sea was rough.
The motor life-boat...
Above: the Land Rover 110 Tdi
Above: The Land Rover 110 Tdi becomes a high-speed response vehicle, Jowmg Uandudno's D class lifeboat 10 the water's edge.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Les Coe the Head Launcher Shovels An
Les Coe, the head launcher, shovels an evenly sloping pathway between the sea and the short slipway by the turntable.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Parliamentary Inquiry
" YOUR Committee cannot conclude their report without recording their opinion that the thanks of the whole community are due to the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION for the energy and good management (often in very...
Category: Articles
The French Ketch St. Michael
Exmouth, Devonshire.—On the morning of the 21st January the coastguard telephoned that the Lyme Regis harbour- master had reported a vessel apparently adrift from her moorings.
He later reported that she had anchored off...
The Late Thomas Wilson, Esq.
IT is with extreme regret that we have to announce the decease of this much-lamented and valued gentleman, by which event the Shipwreck Institution has been deprived of one of its founders, and of its first Chairman of Committee. For a...
Category: Obituaries
Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother By Jeff Morris
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER, who celebrated her eightieth birthday this year, has been concerned with the RNLI for more than a third of its history, for her active support of the lifeboat service goes right back to the...
Category: Articles
Weathering the storm
As the recession continues, your support for the RNLI is more important than ever.
Six out of ten lifeboat launches are only possible thanks to legacy gifts. While we expect the number of gifts to increase over the coming...
Category: Articles
The Lucifer Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At 1.20 P.M. on the 10th October, 1938, a telephone message was received from the inspector of the Coast Life-Saving Service at Dublin that the Lucifer Light-vessel was flying distress...