LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chalk and Cheese...
Travel the length and breadth of the Irish coastline and you will be greeted in almost every harbour of any size by the familiar blue-andorange livery of RNLI lifeboats.
At first this may come as no surprise, but between...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
ANOTHER YEAR has come to the end, and a very successful one it was for Shoreline. Membership is well in excess of 97,000, and although we did not reach our target of 100,000 we were not all that far off. I doubt whether we shall be many...
Category: Articles
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1960
£ LIFE-BOATS:— £ £ New life-boats for the following stations : On i account — Aith, Aldeburgh, Broughty Ferry, Buckie, Dunbar, Islay, Lizard-Cadgwith, Newhaven, Penlee, Port Patrick, ...
Category: Accounts
Standing By After Taking Off Crew
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat and S.S. Punta (see page 158). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Walmer Crew After Returning from Lightvessel
(See page 200). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Your Letters
The future of maroons Sir - Are we to witness the total phasing out of the firing of maroons at our lifeboat stations? This issue must have been the subject of much debate during my periods at sea away from the UK, but I sincerely hope that...
Category: Correspondence
Annual Awards 1980
The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving during 1981 has been made to Coxswain Michael Scales of St Peter Port for the rescue on December 13 of 29 of the crew of the motor vessel Bonita, listing to 45 degrees in the...
Category: Awards
Fortuna, of Gothenburg
On the 10th Sept.
the Life-boat Commercial -Traveller, No. 1, during a heavy gale at S.W., and after- wards at N.W., rendered such important assistance to the barque Forttma, of Goth- enberg, as enabled that vessel, then...
Marine Print Offer
EXCLUSIVE OFFER TO LIFEBOAT READERS Four individually artist signed Maritime Prints, LIMITED TO ONLY 200 IMPRESSIONS EACH by Michael J. Whitehand 22" x P" + THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER (with white border) Tlic American Flag still...
Category: Advertisement
Book Corner
0 Rage of Sand: The Story of the Men who Built their Own Seaside Town (Ernest Benn, £2.25) is by Gabriel Harrison, a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., and is a very readable account of the growth of St.
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