LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sunbeam Chaser
BRONZE MEDAL AT 0100 ON OCTOBER 16, 1987 Portland Coastguard contacted Lt Cdr B F Morris, honorary secretary of Weymouth lifeboat station, to inform him that a 40ft catamaran, 12 miles south of Portland Bill, was stationary under bare poles....
The New Fleet
LONG before the war ended the Institution had made plans to rebuild a great part of its fleet. It lost six boats, destroyed by the enemy, and more serious even than this loss were the delays. In the last four years of the war the building of...
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Guy and Clare Hunter In Gale Force Winds Standing By the \Acht Braemar Before Taking Her In Tow May 22 1967
Guy and Clare Hunter, in gale force winds, standing by the acht Braemar before taking her in tow. May 22, 1967. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Bowman Richard Lethbridge. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
People and Places
Crew members pick the cruisersPoole lifeboat crew drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's lifeboat lottery at Poole lifeboat station on 27 April 2001.
The 93rd draw raised £245,000 and top prize, a luxury Canaries...
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Annual Report
THE ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held at the London Tavern, on Tuesday, the 21st day of March, 1876. His Grace The DUKE of NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of the Institution, being unable to...
Category: Annual Reports
The Gales and the Variations of the Barometer In the Months of October, November, and December, 1867
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations, in the reading,of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, from October 26 to December 6, 1867, are shown in the annexed diagram, together with the directions of...
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Life-Boats In New Zealand
EVER since the first pioneers settled in Canterbury, and sailing ships carried their cargo up the Heathcote River to Ferrymead, the ever-changing Sumner Bar has been notorious for its vicious moods and the number of lives and ships it has...
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The Fund Raisers
Kipling in the Borders On Saturday March 9 The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh kindly allowed their home, Floors Castle in the Borders, to be the magnificent setting for a Kipling evening organised by the Honourable Mrs Henry Douglas-Home and...
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Radar Was First Installed In a Lifeboat 1963 the Boat Being Stationed at Yarmouth In the Isle of Wight. the Cost of the Set Was Largely Paid for By a Fund Started By Admir
'Radar was first installed in a lifeboat in 1963, the boat being stationed at Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. The cost of the set was largely paid for by a fund started by admirers of Joseph Conrad as a memorial to the great writer'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Recovery at Padstow: Watching the Keel Like a Hawk Head Launcher Pat Raby Waits for the Right Moment to Throw the Heaving Line Photographs By Courtesy of Mark Dancy
Recovery at Padstow: watching the keel like a hawk, head launcher Pat Raby waits for the right moment to throw the heaving line. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Mark Dancy. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs