LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Friends of the RNLI
Renewable energy company Ørsted has pledged its support to the RNLI with a new 3-year partnership A global leader in offshore wind, Ørsted will donate more than £200,000 to fund the running costs of lifeboats at Barrow,...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
A Pilot Cutter's Boat
Weymouth, Dorset.—23rd January.
A pilot cutter's boat had capsized, and a steamer had picked up one man. The other two had been drowned before help could reach them. The boat and rescued man were brought ashore by the...
Inaugural Ceremony of the Aberystwyth Motor Life-Boat
THE inaugural ceremony of the new motor life-boat was held at Aberystwyth on 20th April, in the presence of a large audience. The Earl of Lisburne, Lord- Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, the Bishop of St. David's and the Mayor and Mayoress...
Category: Inaugurations
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...
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Get Away With the Lifeboat Lottery
By now those of you who receive lottery tickets will know that the top prize is a stunning Peugeot 206.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Roaring water
Two fishermen faced the reality of the most dangerous profession as they drifted off Co Cork
Just before 9am on Wednesday 22 June, as many of the lifeboat and shore volunteers of Baltimore were...
Category: Articles
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A New Life-Boat Depot
IN 1882 the Institution opened a store- yard at Poplar, on the Thames. Until about five years before that time its Iife-boats4iad all been fitted at the boat- builders' yards, ropes and gear for each boat being separately ordered from...
Category: Articles