LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Early Days Recalled
TWO former operational staff were instrumental in convincing the RNLI of the need to introduce inflatables into the fleet. Lt David Stogdon, an inspector of lifeboats and later Superintendent of Cowes Base, where he led the design and...
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The Duke of Northumberland's Competition Prize Essay
THE second year of the Essay Com- petition, full details of which were given in The Life-Boat for November, 1918, has produced a very interesting crop of essays, both the number and the quality varying greatly and, in some ways, surprisingly...
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National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol
The RNLI's charter docs not make provision (or the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and ihc National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...
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An Intrepid Rescue In Guernsey
and 17 stations with rocket apparatus only, so that Sweden has a fleet of 26 motor life-boats, and 2 pulling (one with an outboard motor).
Turkey There were no services to British vessels.
There are 4 life...
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Your Shout
Your Shout To add your shout, write to the Editor at [email protected] or RNLI Headquarters, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1HZ Dear Editor I am in my 90s but one thingI have never forgotten is when I ‘just went for a swim’. I was...
Category: Correspondence
Continued from Page 304
1 CCl - Mersey class Ruby Clenf Saturday 12 September 1992 started dry with the threat of rain later, but fortunately not until the naming ceremony of the new Peel lifeboat Ruby Clery was almost over.
The Mersey class...
Category: Inaugurations
H.M. Trawler Sir John List
DEC. 21ST. - DONAGHADEE CO DOWN. At 8.20 P.M. the coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities had reported a vessel ashore at the South Briggs.
A light N.W. wind was blowing. There were patches of fog, and the sea was...
The Royal Bank of Scotland
In an Raises money every time you spend* emergency No annual fee our volunteers Interest - free period of up to 56 days rely on this Up to £100 cash back on transferred balances from other credit and store cards** piece of...
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One hot August weekend lifeboats launched around 200 times. With the average launch cost for an all weather boat being £5,800 and £2,200 for an inflatable, the two days cost the RNLi almost £700,000 for launches alone
One hot August weekend lifeboats launched around 200 times. With the average launch cost for an all weather boat being £5,800 and £2,200 for an inflatable, the two days cost the RNLi almost £700,000 for launches... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Hundred Years Ago
WE believe that a life-belt, for an adult person of average size, ought to have, at the least, buoyant power equal to 20 Ibs., and as much more as can conveniently be obtained.
Having decided on the amount of buoyancy, the...
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