LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Belgian Motor Trawler Ibis
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT DUNMORE EAST FEBRUARY 28TH and MARCH 1ST.- DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD.
At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th the motor life-boat C. & S., of Dunmore East, was launched to the help of the...
Feature Building Into the Millennium
RNLI shoreworks manager Howard Richings takes his coastal voyage from Fishguard to SillothThe first half of 2001 was one of the busiest periods ever for the RNLI shoreworks team. Before setting sail northwards from Fishguard, a quick fook...
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In Moving the Resolution at the Annual Presentation of Awards Hm the Queen Mother
In moving the resolution at the annual presentation of awards, HM The Queen Mother likened the RNLl to a large family in which everyone plays their part. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of David Trotter. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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All Hands to the Pumps
On the night of 22 June 1988 the fishing vessel Marigold tan on to rocks at Polkirt beach, 500 yards from Mevagissey Harbour and was badly holed. An overnight operation by a local boatbuilder, the coastguards and fire brigade patched the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
ALL HANDS TO THE PUMP
With a small angling boat rapidly taking on water in the North Sea, it took the combined skills of three lifeboat crews to save the vessel and the eight men onboard
The volunteers on Tynemouth’s all-weather lifeboat were...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-earriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a "very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a, carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
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The Tender Sybella (M.F.V. 1564)
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 7.55 on the morning of the 8th of July, 1956, the coastguard telephoned that the Ports- mouth naval authorities had reported that the fleet tender Sybella (M.F.V.
1564) had gone aground east of Beachy...