LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Ferry good idea! Pictured above are 'Hobblers' - the ferrymen who bring visitors over to St Michaels Mount from Marazion between April and the end of October.
They each carry a lifeboat collection box on board and...
Category: Articles
Royal Visit to RNLI Museum
Left to right: Mr J Evans, chairman Grace Darling Museum committee, HRH The Duke of Gloucester. - View image in PDF
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester. Mrs Christine Bell, honorary curator Grace Darling museum.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifejackets for lifesavers
Four years in the making, the RNLI’s new lifejackets are a milestone in maritime innovation
A lifejacket is the one item of personal protective equipment (PPE) that our crews must wear: their...
Category: Articles
List of Launches
Le Station-by-station lifeboat launches for June and July 1999 Aberdeen Arun: Jul 2andJu)4 D Class: Jul 2 and Jul 12 Aberdovey Atlantic 2 1 : Jun 7. Jun 24. Jun 26 (twice) and Jul 27 Abersoch Atlantic 2 1 : Jun 4 (twice). Jun 6. Jun 18 and...
Category: Services
Membership News
Meeting the need Every year there is a rise in the number calls for help received by the RNLI's volunteer crews. In 1994 lifeboats launched 6,156 times - itself a record - but just a year later the figure for 1995 stood at 7,312 launches...
Category: Articles
A design for lifesaving
For decades, brave volunteers launched their Watson class
lifeboats to the rescue. Now the blueprint for a wellloved lifeboat that saved many lives has inspired a new RNLI Shop range. Celebrate our lifeboat heritage in style with...
Category: Articles
List of Forthcoming Life-Boat Days
THE following is a fairly complete list of the Life-boat Days which have been arranged for the summer; the dates, however, are subject to alteration:— June 3. East Grinstead.
„ 4, 5. Lincoln.
„ 5....
Category: Branches
Bombed -- But Safe In Port.
A life-boat collecting box has come home after being bombed. It was on board a steamer which was attacked by aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew abandoned her and 56 of them were landed by the Angle life-boat. Two days later she went...
Category: Articles
The Passage of the Motor Life-Boat "Dunleary" from Cowes to Kingstown
By Commander STOPFORD C. DOUGLAS, R.N., Inspector for the Irish District.
THE passage of this boat from Cowes to Kingstown gave her a. test to which Life-boats are not often subjected.
Many'encounter...
Category: Articles
the new 50-foot Thames clans lifeboat
The new 50-foot Thames clans lifeboat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs