LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a "very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a, carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles
List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS FROM THE 1ST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER, 1872.
JAN. 1,...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1869
THE Annual Wreck Register has made its appearance in the midst of two calamities which are nearly overpowering iN their vastness and destructiveness. The war which rages with such fearful havoc on the Continent of Europe, and the foundering...
Category: Annual Reports
News from the Branches
IT is proposed in future to publish in The Lifeboat lists of new Branches with the names of their Honorary Secretaries.
The following list is of the Branches which have been formed since the beginning of 1925 :— NORTHERN...
Category: Branches
From the Director
Brian Miles CBE looks back on an eventful 1995 1995 proved to be yet another busy and eventful twelve months for everyone involved with the RNLI.
A highlight had to be the 17th Conference of the International Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Fire Extinguishers at Life-Boat Stations
THERE are two types of fire extinguishers in use at Life-boat Stations. The one is the liquid type, charged with carbon tetrachloride, the other is the "Total" extinguisher which is a dry powder machine. This type was first adopted...
Category: Articles
(Below) Sir Samuel Kelly a 46' 9" Watson the Gift of Lady Mary Kelly of Crawfordsburn County Down Arrives on Station In May 1950 at That Time Her Midships Cockpit Was
(Below) Sir Samuel Kelly, a 46' 9" Watson, the gift of Lady Mary Kelly of Crawfordsburn, County Down, arrives on station in May 1950. At that time her midships cockpit was open; an enclosed wheelhouse has since been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Historic Moment: The Lizard-Cadgwith Life-Boat Making Contact With Sir Francis Chichester's Yacht Gypsy Moth IV As She Neared the English Coast on 28th, May 1967, After her Voyage Round the World
Historic moment: the Lizard-Cadgwith life-boat making contact with Sir Francis Chichester's yacht Gypsy Moth IV as she neared the English coast on 28th May, 1967, after her voyage round the world.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Search for divers THE SUPPORT BOAT of a party of divers contacted the coastguard at 1355 on the afternoon of Sunday September 15, 1985, to say that two of their divers had not surfaced from their diving on the wreck of ss Teddington, about...
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Relief D class inflatable lifeboat. City of Derby, (D408) is shown crashing through waves at Dunbar where she was on relief duty between February and July 1995.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs