LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Production Prototype of the Rnli's Proposed Fast Carriage-Launched Lifeboat
Pictured here, the production prototype of the RNLI's proposed fast carriage-launched lifeboat is currently undergoing extensive technical and operational trials, as part of its continuing evaluation. It is anticipated that the trials... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer
Ex-Coxswain William Stephenson, of Alnmouth and Boulmer, who died in July, at the age of seventy-six, came of a very distinguished life-boat family.
He was the fourth member of it in succession, to be coxswain, and when he...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Deck Plan.
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Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these...
Category: Articles
A Service of Which the Nation Is Proud
The following address was given by the Archbishop of York at the funeral of three members of the Scarborough life-boat on 3th December, 1951.
WE have assembled this afternoon to pay a tribute of honour to the three brave...
Category: Articles
Miranda
Douglas, Isle of Man.—At 6.40 on the evening of the 19th of May, 1955, the Ramsey coastguard telephoned that a small motor boat had broken down four miles east of Onchan Head. A quarter of an hour later the life-boat Millie Walton was...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ATHERFIELD, ISLE OF WIGHT. — It having been considered that a Life-boat placed at Atherfield, on the south-west shore of the Isle of Wight, would be the means of affording material assistance to vessels which are not unfrequently driven on...
Category: Articles
The trawler Juniper aground on Papa Stour. photograph by courtesy of Dennis Coutts
The trawler Juniper aground on Papa Stour. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Dennis Coutts. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pamela
Peel, Isle of Man - At 10.36 a.m. on 15th July, 1968, it was learnt that a small boat was in difficulties off Lynague. The life-boat Helena Harris - Manchester and District XXXI was launched at 10.50 in a fresh south westerly wind with...
International Congress of the Breton Life-Saving Society
A VERY interesting International Con- gress on life-saving took place at St.
Malo, Brittany, between the 4th and 12th August. It had been organised by La Soci6te des Hospitaliers Sauveteurs Bretons, in celebration of their...
Category: Articles
Offshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1978
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire March 16 and 19 Aldeburgh, Suffolk May 7 Amble, Northumberland May 7 Anstruther, Fife May 18 Arbroath, Angus March 18 Arklow, Co. Wicklow April 7 Baltimore, Co. Cork May 30 Barry Dock, South Glamorgan March 20 (twice)...
Category: Services