LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Anchor Shot As Aids to Launching Life-Boats
IN the year 1845 it was first proposed to throw an anchor or grapnel from a mortar, with a line attached to it, for the purpose of hauling boats afloat through a surf. In that year a Mr. OFFORD, of Great Tar- mouth, designed a grapnel, with...
Category: Articles
The Central Appeals Committee
THE Central Appeals Committee, whose chairman is Mr. R. N. Crumbie, 126a High Street, Orpington, Kent, continues to develop new fund raising measures on behalf of the R.N.L.I.
The national sponsored swim, arranged by the...
Category: Committee
Rnli National Lottery
THE RNLI'S twentieth national lottery draw was made at Poole HQ on January 28 by Anita Harris, who had recentlytaken the name role of Robinson Crusoe in the highly successful pantomime at Poole Arts Centre. The draw was supervised by...
Category: Articles
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Three Pleasure Boats, the Sea Pearl, the Sea Otter and the Endeavour
Fog bound ON March 11 two pleasure boats, the Sea Pearl and the Sea Otter, w i t h fishing parties aboard were reported overdue in Ayr harbour.At 6.30 p.m. the Troon lifeboat Conncl Elizabeth Car gill slipped her moorings to make a search in...
Nameless of Cork & Schooner Emil Ann of Carnarvon
On the 22nd August, the brigantine Nameless, of Cork,and the schooner Emily Ann, of Carnarvon, were observed in distress off Tenby during a strong gale of wind. The Florence...
The Royal Bank of Scotland
RNLI Andy Huggelt: 2nd coxswain ana deputy mechanic. Eastbourne lifeboat.
He'll face 30ft waves, force 9 gales and sub-zero temperatures.
All you face is an application form.
Every...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 65. Lives rescued 43.
Februar- eeting.
Rossi "--• „ Co. Wexford.—On the 20th uoer, 1938, the crew of four of the motor schooner M....
Category: Services
Remarkable Aerial Photograph of the Motor Vessel Nofsiporoi Being Pounded By Heavy Seas on 2Nd December 1966 When Two Gold Medals Awarded to Members
of the Institution for their bravery that day in going to her aid. The Nofsiporoi was at times rolling up to 35 either vertical with her forefoot, bilge keels and propeller in turn showing well clear of the water.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Awards Made at the 1996 Annual Presentation of Awards See Page 160 of This Issue for a Report of the Annual Meetings
Awards made at the 1996 Annual Presentation of Awards See page 160 of this issue for a report of the Annual Meetings Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting, the Committee of Management has awarded 6 Honorary Life Governorships,...
Category: Awards