LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Capsized motor cruiser THE DUTY COASTGUARD on watch in the lookout of Solent MRSC on the spring bankholiday Monday, May 25, reported at 1256 that a vessel had capsized in the vicinity of the Shingles Bank Elbow Buoy at the western approaches...
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Blunder Woman1 Lilian Crust Prepares for Her Daredevil Stunt
'Blunder woman1 Lilian Crust prepares for her daredevil stunt. Photo Kentish Times Newspaper. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Year on the front line
All lifeboat stations are equipped with digital waterproof Pentax cameras to help the crew take real-time, high quality images of their lifesaving activities.
RNLI lifeguard units also have access to the cameras. The RNLI... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
LONGHOPE, ORKNEY ISLANDS. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Station at Longhope, on the south side of Hoy, one of the South Orkney Islands, where a lamentable ship- ! wreck, with loss of life, took place some '...
Category: Articles
A Mid-Winter Service
By Major-General the Rt. Hon. John E. Bernard Seeley, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
[Major-General Seely has been a Member of the Committee of Management of the Institution for over twenty-eight years.
He has...
Category: Services
A Weekend In September
Saturday and Sunday, September 13 and 14, 1975: 47 launches on service FOUR AWARDS FOR GALLANTRYTWO SILVER MEDALS, a bronze medal, a vellum, 47 launches on service, 34 lives rescued, nine vessels saved, 172 hours at sea. Not a record by RNLI...
Category: Services
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Down. — 31st October. The coast- guard had telephoned that an aeroplane was reported to have fallen into the sea about one and a half miles S.E. of St.
John's...
Technical Developments In the Life-Boat Service
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.
Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
KINGSDOWNE, KENT.—On the morning of the 18th September, signals of distress were fired by a vessel which proved to be the steamer Dolphin, of London, bound from London to Havre, with a general cargo and passengers, which had been in...
Category: Services