LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mr. John Prior, Deal
Mr. John Prior, of Deal, who died on 14th December last at the age of eighty-four, was for twenty-five years the secretary of one of the most im- portant life-boat stations on our coasts —the famous station at North...
Category: Obituaries
Additional Life-Boat Stations
In addition to the former life-boat stations described in our first Number, we are now enabled to state, that life-boats have recently been placed at Teignmouth, Tenby, Hornsea, and Palling; while others are in course of construction for...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Articles
Fundraising
Supporter recruitment manager, Sharon New, brings us the inside story on a new breed of RNLI street fundraisers and recruiters..
This summer you may come across some Lifeboats fundraisers that you have not seen before. They...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd October, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
Lifeboat Services March April and May 1987
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: April 17 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic2l: April 19 (twice), 20 and May 17 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic21: April 19, May 20 and 24 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class inflatable: April 26 and May 30 Aith, Shetland 52ft...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun: June 11 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 4, 18, July 12 (three times), 24 (three times), 26 (twice) and 27 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: June 12 (three times), 23, July 12, 31 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun:...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Station
(See Diagrams on next page.) The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
Category: Articles
The Final Trials of the Motor Tractor
By Captain HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
I GAVE an account, in The Life-Boat for May, 1920, of the reasons which had led the Institution to look for some mechanical means for launching...
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