LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature Moving Inland
On 23 May 2001 the first RNLI inland waterway lifeboat station, on Lough Erne in Northern Ireland, opened for business.
Honorary secretary Sam McCreery and deputy launching authority Archie Birrell report on the events of...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Launches 110. Lives rescued 102.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow_On the night of the 20th November,...
Category: Services
(Right) As An Honorary Member of Beaumaris Lifeboat Crew Sir Jimmy Savill Obe
(Right) As an honorary member of Beaumaris lifeboat crew Sir Jimmy Savill QBE has always been a friend to the RNLI and when Storm Force was first introduced he was quick to support the junior club by writing a message in an early issue of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At the Sharp End
Short service iust 500 yards from station - but a surfer's life is saved Ashort but very difficult service by North Sunderland's D class inflatable lifeboat on 18 May 1996 undoubtedly saved the life of a surfer, and also led to the...
Category: Services
"A Fisherman's Yarn"
IN 1948 Mr. Paul Rotha made for the Institution a twenty-minute film, with music and a running commentary, which was to show the Life-boat Service from the point of view of the fishermen from whom its crews are drawn. It was taken at...
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Bookshelf
For the enthusiast Lifeboats and Lifeboat Stations in the United Kingdom and Ireland ISBN 0902792 156 by Nicholas Leach Published by The Lifeboat Enthusiasts' Society at £4.50 Nicholas Leach has prepared a most useful volume for the...
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Extended lifeguard season saves the dayBeach lifeguards at Perranporth were surprised to see a horse and rider galloping up to them on the afternoon of 26 October 2003 Two horse riders had been enjoying a sunny autumn day on Perran Sands...
The Song of the Life-Boat's Crew
WE are indebted to THOMAS GRAY, Esq., the talented Assistant Secretary of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, for the following interesting song adapted to the well-known music " Heart of Oak." Messrs. CHAPPELL of Bond...
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Super-Quality of Life-Boats. Some Examples from the Recent Gales
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
IN an article with the above title which appeared in The Lifeboat for February, 1925, I pointed out the reasons why, in material and construction...
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Ring of Safety
There’s no mistaking an RNLI lifeboat – but what are all those other craft in the lifesaving team?
When RNLI lifeboat volunteers answer the call for help, they are launching to the front line in a battle to save lives –...
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