LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Ecclesiastical point I have been interested in the correspondence about Shoreline. I would leave things as they are. Certainly I would not want to have Lifeboat Supporters Club as a name because although we do not go to sea those of us who...
Category: Correspondence
Fairey Marine Group
FAIREY MARINE GROUP You should never need a lifeboat in your Fairey fast patrol boat, commercial vessel, high speed motor yacht or luxury off-shore power cruiser because they are designed and built to the highest standards of seaworthiness....
Category: Advertisement
Come take a look
RNLI open days give supporters the chance to get up close and personal with state-ofthe- art lifeboats and the volunteers who crew them.
The charity’s Headquarters and Lifeboat College in Poole open their doors to the...
Category: Articles
From An Original Idea by Henry Greathead
Jn Sunday, 15 March 1789 a ship, the Adventure of Newcastle, began the process which led to today's lifeboats.
Adventure was wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne while thousands of onlookers watched helplessly from the...
Category: Articles
Membership News
Introduce a friend With this issue of THE LIFEBOAT is a leaflet entitled 'Introduce a friend'.
We hope you will pass this leaflet on to a friend, neighbour or perhaps relative, who may interested in supporting the...
Category: Articles
Octopus
Hastings' 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Fairlight, with Coxswain Frederick White at the helm, tows the Dutch yacht Octopus towards Rye Harbour during a force 6 south-south-easterly gale and in rough seas on July 19, 1987. Rye Harbour's...
(Above) the Simulator
(Above) The simulator, ll may look like a plywood shed but inside is an exact replica of The Mumbles lifeboat cabin.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sir Charles Macara (With Walking Stick) and a Clayton Tractor on Trials at Lytham St.Annes
Sir Charles Macara (with walking stick) and a Clayton tractor on trials at Lytham St Annes. (Photo Lytham Lifeboat Museum). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
Cover picture: two lifeboat volunteer crew members on the slipway at sennen Cove Photo: Steve Bicknell/Icarus. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: Harbour Conditions at Macduff
Above: Harbour conditions at Macduff require the lifeboat to be launched from a special launching truck with hydraulic rig.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs