Thankfully, lifeboat disasters are rare. Lifeboats are designed to withstand the very worst conditions and on occasions in recent years many crews have had cause to be grateful to the self-righting capability of modern lifeboats. The sea is...
Category: Articles
Life-Boatmen Who Were Honoured In London In May There Were 17 And Here They Are Pictured On The Embankment Before The Investiture See Page 343 For Profile on Coxswain Derek Scott, B.E.M., of the Mumbles life-boat. Life-Boatmen Who Were... - View image in PDF
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Regular readers of theLifeboat will know that the RNLI takes training very seriously. But there are some things in life that no amount of training can prepare you for. We follow 26-year-old Alison Panes as she takes us through her first few...
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February Meeting.
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford.—On the llth December, 1932, the 4,920- ton steamer Pauline, of Panama, came to anchor in a very dangerous position in Tramore Bay. She was bound, light, from Glasgow to...
Category: Services
Ramsgate remembered Reading Ken Baker's letter in the Spring issue reminded me that I also had reason to be grateful to the Ramsgate lifeboat.
I also had the same experience as he but was taken aboard a small Dutch...
Category: Correspondence
ALTHOUGH 1956 was by far the busiest year the Life-boat Service has known in time of peace, in the first three months of the present year even greater demands were made on lifeboat crews than were made in the corresponding months of 1956. By...
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The winter 2005 Lifeboat Lottery raised almost £750,000 for the RNLI - thank you! Once again, the quarterly Lifeboat Lottery has broken all records, bringing 2005's total Lottery income to an extraordinary...
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ON the morning of the 6th December, 1875, occurred one of those sad disasters which ever and anon remind us of the dangerous character of our shores, the wreck of an emigrant ship. But a few months since the German passenger steamer Schiller...
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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
A new wing has recently been added to the Institution's depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., to provide extra repair and maintenance facilities for, among equipment items, IRBs of the growing fleet. This night scene shows IRBs in store and one... - View image in PDF
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