LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: a Pier Without Equal
A pier without equal It was the collision of the Bowbelle and Marchioness in 1989 and the resulting 51 deaths that led the Government to ask the RNLI to provide a lifeboat service on the Thames. Now the RNLI's busiest lifeboat station of...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XLXIX. RYE.—The Mary Stanford, 34 feet by 7 feet 9 inches, 10 oars.
L. WINCHELSEA.—The Frances Harris, 33 feet by 8 feet 2 inches, 10 oars.
THESE two most interesting towns well deserve the descriptive...
Category: Articles
Boats & Bits
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Category: Advertisement
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas Henry Hutchinson, of Bridlington. He has been an officer of the life-boat for 30 years, serving as bowman from 1919 to 1925, second coxswain from 1925 to 1938 and cox- swain from 1938 to...
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Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1858
Oct. 23, 1857.—A Norwegian barque was seen in distress during stormy weather on Hasboro' Sands. A fishing-lugger's crew picked up, with some difficulty, the ship's crew of 9 men, who had taken to their boat.—Reward,...
Category: Articles
(Right) the Rigid Hull Is Divided Into Watertight Compartments By Five Longitudinal Wooden Box Girders and Seven Transverse Watertight Bulkheads
(Right) the rigid hull is divided into watertight compartments by five longitudinal wooden box girders and seven transverse watertight bulkheads . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Tanker aground GUERNSEY LIFEBOAT, the 52' Arun Sir William Arnold, had been called out at 2250 on July 14, 1975, to escort a fishing boat under tow into harbour.
She returned from this service at...
Category: Services
RNLI lifeboat stations and lifeguard areas as of May 2006
RNLI lifeboat stations and lifeguard areas as of May 2006.
Category: Charts
RNLI lifeboat stations and lifeguard areas as of May 2006
RNLI lifeboat stations and lifeguard areas as of May 2006.
Category: Charts
Another Day... Another Service!
Another day... another service! Poole's Atlantic 75 was called out a couple of weeks before the events chronicled above, and while in the middle of her naming ceremony, when Poole's shallows and tidal streams caught out another yacht... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs