LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Remembering those lost
This year marks the centenary of the Fethard lifeboat disaster, when nine volunteers from the Co Wexford station died during a brave rescue attempt in unforgiving seas.
On 20 February 1914, 14 Fethard crew members launched...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE EXPERIENCES of a number of lifeboats in the severe gales last winter led to the appointment in February, 1978 of a working party to examine what more could be done to reduce the dangers facing lifeboat crews in extreme conditions....
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th June, 1905.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1883
Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...
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Keeping on track
Getting 15 tonnes of lifeboat across a beach is an age-old task …
Lifeboat launch and recovery is a vital link in the lifesaving chain and the stations that cannot use afloat moorings, slipways...
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An Engraving By 'WWM'
An engraving by 'WWM', which first appeared in August 1871 showing a paddle steamer towing a lifeboat, went on to appear ten years later as the Ramsgate lifeboat at the wreck of the Indian Chief- an improbable scoop which was...
Category: Drawings
The power of the sea
Need some inspiration for your Summer reading list? Here’s a collection of books that celebrate the skills and endurance needed to master our planet’s expansive oceans
For adventurers
Across the Arctic Ocean –...
Category: Articles
Hm Coastguard: the Lifeboatman's Link With the Shore By Geoffrey Pallet
Geoffrey Pallet, editor of Coastguard magazine, describes the service which acts as co-ordinator of all marine search and rescue around the shores of the United Kingdom. He also passes on some useful advice to visitors to the coast.'LATE...
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Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE DEATH of Captain Nigel Dixon was a serious and sudden loss to the RNLI.
He became Secretary of the Institution.
a t i t l e which was later altered to that of Director, at a difficult time in 1970. Not...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 14th January, 1897.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee