LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launching and Recovery PART II: BEACH LAUNCH by Edward Wake-Walker RNLI Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
ON A CLEAR DAY at Walmer the unaccustomed visitor can be forgiven for doubting his own knowledge of geography when he sees the bold outline of France, seemingly only a pebble's throw across the curving surface of the English Channel....
Category: Articles
Your Letters
Buckle offers Following publication of my letter in THE LIFEBOAT of Autumn 1991 which explained I was seeking an RNLI buckle for a leather belt like the one my father used to own, I have been lucky and had a belt and buckle sent to me, as...
Category: Correspondence
John Chapman: Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund
'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.
But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...
Category: Articles
Buy a Life-Boat Calendar!
Buy a Life-boat Calendar! THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat Calendar. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Life-boat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and...
Category: Articles
The RIB: The Rigid-hulled Inflatable Lifeboat
The RIB:
The Rigid-hulled Inflatable
Lifeboat
by David Sutcliffe
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This is the unusual record of a very special college created from the vision of...
Category: Articles
Be back soon
As you read this, an RNLI pager will probably be going off somewhere. Heads will turn to the ear-piercing beeps, adrenaline will pump and someone will be leaving in a hurry.
But what about the...
Category: Articles
October
Launches 96. Lives rescued 231.
OCTOBER 2ND. - FRASERBURGH. ABERDEENSHIRE The life-boat was launched twice to the help of the steam trawler Northward, from which she had previously rescued the crew of ten. For details see...
Category: Services
The French Life-Boat Society. Boat-House With Movable Platform at La Joliette, Marseilles
THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
BECAUSE of the growing interest in Shoreline clubs it has been suggested that we try to organise a general, countrywide get-together and, following a kind offer from Shoreline Club No 3, Southend-on-Sea, we are looking into the possibility...
Category: Articles
The Hull and Deck Assembly of the Prototype Fab 4 Is Hoisted Into William Osborne's Yard at Littlehampton for Fitting Out
The hull and deck assembly of the prototype FAB 4 is hoisted into William Osborne's yard at Littlehampton for fitting out.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs