LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Hm Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Names Rnlb Rotary Service Dover
DOVER: OCTOBER 30, 1979 IT WAS PARTICULARLY FITTING that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother should agree to visit Dover to name the new lifeboat, for she is not only a Patron of the RNLI, but earlier last year she was installed as...
Category: Inaugurations
(Right) the Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats Is Responsible for the Efficient Operation of Lifeboats In His Area and Carries Out Frequent Exercises With His Coxswains and Cre
(Right) The divisional inspector of lifeboats is responsible for the efficient operation of lifeboats in his area and carries out frequent exercises with his coxswains and crews. He works in close co-operation with the district engineer, who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Fort Massac, of London
FEBRUARY 1ST - 3RD. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. About 6.40 in the evening the coastguard reported an SOS from a vessel which was sinking about two miles north-west of the Sunk Lightvessel.
The motor life-boat E.M.E.D. was...
Notes of the Quarter
WITH THE placing of an order for two new steel life-boats, the first of their kind, the R.N.L.I.'s major programme of new construction has been significantly advanced. The two new boats, which are each 50 feet in length, are being built...
Category: Articles
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What will you save with your motor insurance? The odd pound or two maybe, but how about a life? For every quote given to an RNLI member, RAC Insurance Services...
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The Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association
WHEN the "National Shipwreck Institution," as this Institution was then called, was re-organized and consolidated in 1850, there were various county associations which acted in harmony and unison with it, but for all practical...
Category: Articles
PC Arthur E Farley and Sgt Douglas H Carter of the Bournemouth Police
P.C. Arthur E. Farley and Sgt. Douglas H. Carter, of the Bournemouth police, who boarded a blazing motor-boat off Bournemouth on 19th May, 1968, and afterwards picked up three people. The service was described in the September issue of THE... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue from Coaster After Nine Hour-Passage
AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Cromarty life-boat station, Mr. James Cameron, learnt from the coastguard that the coaster Servus of Leith needed help nine and a half miles south-by-east...
Category: Services