LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, TUESDAY, MAY 17 1976: A YEAR OF GREAT ACHIEVEMENT ON SEA AND LAND A STANDING OVATION for a gold medallist and his crew at the end of the presentation of no less than 24 medals for gallantry; the report of an increase of...
Category: Meetings
Cash Peak
A team representing the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Junior Organisation (RICS JO) recently attempted the three peaks challenge - climbing Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike and Snowdon, the three highest peaks of Scotland, England and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Members of Golden Lane Youth Club from London
Members of Golden Lane Youth Club, from London EC1, visited Hastings last August proudly to present a cheque to Coxswain Joe Martin for £247.50, the sum they had raised with a sponsored swim. The 10 to 16 year olds got together with the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (3)
JANUARY 30TH - 1ST FEBRUARY. SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, and with the help of fifty soldiers the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 12.6 P.M.
A light S.W. wind was...
Letters
What's in a name? I was intrigued by the selection of proposed names put forward as alternatives to Shoreline Members (THE LIFEBOAT, Summer 1987, Page 170).
They mostly showed a certain degree of aptness or humour, but...
Category: Correspondence
London International Boat Show
EVERY YEAR at the London International Boat Show, the RNLI is given a flying start by the organisers of the exhibition, National Boat Shows Ltd, when they donate the space for the RNLI stand free of charge. This year's stand area would...
Category: Articles
Bathing Accidents and Safety Bathing Dresses
WE have frequently called attention to the melancholy and often preventible loss of life which summer after summer takes place from accidents to bathers on the shores and inland waters of the United Kingdom.
It might...
Category: Articles
Ceremonies
Naming and dedication Ceremonies rlOWth - Arun class Hibernia The naming ceremony of the RNLI's new relief 52ft Arun class lifeboat was held on Saturday 16 September at Howth Harbour.
Mrs Maureen Haughey named the new...
Category: Inaugurations
Four Life-Boats Searched for Survivors In the North Sea When the Oil Drilling Rig Sea Gem Collapsed on Boxing Day With the Loss of Eight Lives
Four life-boats searched for survivors in the North Sea when the oil drilling rig Sea Gem collapsed on Boxing Day with the loss of eight lives. Here one of the lifeboats is standing by at the buoyed wreck. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fig4: and Stowed on One Side Edian Courtauld Her Decks Stripped for Action Was at Cardnell Brothers for Partial Survey Her New Air Bag Has Already Been Fitted to Her
Fig. 5: New sacrificial anodes are fitted to afloat boats each year. The wastage caused by electrolytic action can be seen by comparing new anode with old one just taken off Edian Courtauld: Ji/6 of metal had been eroded in twelve months at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs