LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blue Peter Scrapbook
Words: Philly Byrde
Research: Hayley Whiting
Photos: Nicholas Leach, RNLI Archive,
RNLI/(Chris Cousens, Fishguard)
Fifty years ago, the very first Blue Peter lifeboats went to their new...
Category: Articles
A Light-Ship Electrically Connected With the Shore. (From the Times, 20th March, 1894.)
THE Royal Commission on Electrical Communication with Light-houses and Light - vessels recommended that five light-vessels be immediately connected with the shore by a telegraphic cable, viz., the Goodwin, at the north end of the sand; the...
Category: Articles
Book Reviews
• The quality of lifeboat station histories seems to improve steadily. A recent outstanding example is The Men of The Mumbles Head by Carl Smith (J. D. Lewis and Sons, Gower Press, Llandysul, Dyfed, £3.50).
Mr Smith,...
Category: Articles
(Left) Canadian Coast Guard Has for Some Years Used Hovercraft In Its Rescue Work the First a British Hovercraft Corporation Srn5 Became Operational at Vancouv
(Left) Canadian Coast Guard has for some years used hovercraft in its rescue work. - View image in PDF
The first, a British Hovercraft Corporation SRN5, became operational at Vancouver in 1969.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) a Modem Lifeboat Is Complex |Ust a Small Part of the Wiring Switches and Circuit Breakers for the Engine and Equipment In the Process of Inslallation
(Above) A modem lifeboat is complex... |ust a small part of the wiring, switches and circuit breakers for the engine and equipment in the process of inslallation.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The R.N.L.I Looks Ahead
For the first time in its history the annual meeting of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at the Royal Festival Hall, London, when the Chairman, Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., referred to the decisions...
Category: Meetings
Your Letters
The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...
Category: Correspondence
Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Purchase of the Following Life-Boats
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Category: Donations
Lifeboat Services
South West Division French yachtsmen saved SECOND COXSWAIN Peter Bisson was in command when St Peter Port's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Sir William Arnold, slipped her moorings at 0950 on the morning of Sunday August 11, 1985. A report had...
Category: Services
All In a Good Cause By Pat Dewhurst
Pat Dewhurst, honorary secretary of Penwortham fund raising branch was asked to give this account of what lies behind the £4,OOU they bring in for the RNLI each year at a recent regional conference Readers who spend time on similar...
Category: Donations