LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gypsy Rover
Leapt to the rescue THE STORMS WHICH SWEPT ACROSS THE English Channel on August Bank Holiday Monday, 1986, continued unabated the next day and it was towards the end of the afternoon on Tuesday, August 26 that a yacht in Alderney Harbour...
Some of the 100 Guests In the Garden of Mrs Denis Wiffen Ofmeols Wirral They Enjoyed a Strawberry Lunch With Wine Organised Last Summer on Behalf of Hoylake Ladies' Guild Mrs Wiffen Can B
Some of the 100 guests in the garden of Mrs Denis Wiffen ofMeols, Wirral. They enjoyed a strawberry lunch with wine organised last summer on behalf of Hoylake ladies' guild. Mrs Wiffen can be seen standing in the background on the left... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
What Are Lifeboats Made Of? By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
For modern boats there is a choice. Wood, glass reinforced plastic, steel and aluminium are all very good, well tried materials. The first three have all been used for RNLI lifeboat hulls while aluminium is used for superstructures. All have...
Category: Articles
Two Motor Life-Boats In the December Gales
THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...
Category: Services
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, llth February, 1937.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir HENRY F.
OLIVER in the chair.
Resolved that the respectful thanks of the Institution be conveyed to Her Majesty the Queen for her...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Services In September, October and November. 73 Lives Rescued
During September, life-boats went out on service 60 times and rescued 40 lives.
A BOY IN A RUBBER DINGHY Cromer, Norfolk.—During the morning of the 2nd of September, 1948, the engines of the No. 1 life-boat Henry Blogg were...
Category: Services
Annual Report. 1900
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Wednesday, the 14th day of March, 1900, His Grace The DUKE OF DEVON- SHIRE, K.G., Lord President of the...
Category: Annual Reports
"Man the Life-Boat."
THE following lines, which graphically describe the rescue of a shipwrecked crew by one of the Life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, were written by WILLIAM POTTER, a coast- guardman and coxswain of the Cahore Life-boat, on the...
Category: Poetry
Motor Life-Boats That Want Names!
Nine for England; six for Scotland; one for Wales; three for Ireland.
The Institution now has 61 Motor Life-boats in its Fleet of 214. Another seven Motor Life-boats are under con- struction, and a further seventeen have...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Dismasted yacht AT 1330 on Sunday August 11, 1985, Portland coastguard received a 999 call from a member of the public reporting he had seen a yacht firing a white flare about a mile and a half south of Lulworth Cove. The...
Category: Services