LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Advertisement
(Left) the Reports and Accounts of the Year's Work Are Submitted to the Governors of the Institution for Adoption at the Annual General Meeting After Which Medals for G
(Left) The reports and accounts of the year's work are submitted to the Governors of the Institution for adoption at the annual general meeting, after which medals for gallantry are presented.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Living on the edge
Our coastlines may appear as fi rm lines on a map but they are constantly changing. A European Commission report in 2004 stated that over 17% of the UK and nearly 20% of the RoI coastline is eroding, challenging the very existence of some...
Category: Articles
The Grp Arun's Hull Plug Is Double Diagonal Construction Coated With 18 Coats of Furane Resin, Rubbed Down Hard Between Each Coat. the Ultimate Finish of a Glass Rei
The GRP Arun's hull plug is double diagonal construction coated with 18 coats of Furane resin, rubbed down hard between each coat.
The ultimate finish of a glass reinforced plastic hull is dependent on the fine quality... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies
TEN new motor life-boats were named during 1951. Seven were on the Eng- lish coast, at New Brighton (Liverpool), Margate, Scarborough, Lytham, Culler- coats, Newbiggin and Redcar; two on the Scottish coast, at Arbroath and Anstruther; and...
Category: Inaugurations
People and Places
In appreciation...
Back in September 1992 Andrew McDonald was sailing his father's yacht Whisky Mac when she ran into trouble near the Channel Islands - see The Lifeboat, Winter 1992/3 - and the Alderney lifeboat was...
Category: Articles
The Shetland Islands
WHETHER the Shetland Islands were the Ultima Thule of the Romans or whether that term was really applied to Iceland, as many believe, is immaterial to most people living in the " adjacent islands" of Great Britain and Ireland; it...
Category: Articles
The English Sea Fisheries
THE sea fisheries of this country cannot but be a subject of interest to every one, •whether living on the sea-coast or inland, but more particularly must they be so to the friends of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, because of the...
Category: Articles
The Sudden Foundering of Ships of War, and How to Save Their Crews
WE have been so accustomed to look on our Ships of War as " the safest things afloat" that our whole attention has been hitherto turned to measures for increasing the safety of our merchant vessels, and to providing the most...
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APPENDICITIS PATIENT Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 10.20 p.m.
on 2 ist July, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that an appendicitis patient was in urgent need of an operation.
The air ambulance...