LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Injured men A HANG GLIDER crashed on the rocks of Beachy Head and the pilot badly injured was reported to Eastbourne lifeboat station by Fairlight Coastguard at 1524.on April 23. Eight minutes later the D class ILB was launched and, crewed...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st July to the 30th Sept. 1876
ABKLOW.—At daybreak on the 8th July, 1876, the weather being moderate, in- formation was received from the Coastguard that a barque was ashore near " Jack's- j hole," Arklow Banks. The Life-boat Oat- Pensioner was launched...
Category: Services
Summary of Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th June 1878: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and...
Category: Committee
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
People and Places
Some old photos can lead charmed lives - and these were some of the lucky ones which survived by pure chance, or rather by a chain of coincidences.
How did they arrive here? Well: if you treat your dustbin men nicely they...
Category: Articles
Survival experience is top teambuilder
The RNLI Sea Survival Experience was named Best Teambuilding Event at the 2010 Eventia Awards.
The experience, which takes place at the Lifeboat College, was developed by RNLI trainers to show corporate groups what it’s...
Category: Articles
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 16 November 1989, show that during 1989: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,695 times (an average of more than 12 launches a day) More than 1,257 lives were saved (an average of 4 people...
Category: Articles
Meetings of Committee
Thursday, Feb. 3,1853. Capt. STEPHENSON ELLERBT in the Chair.
Confirmed minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
The Rev. SHAFTO ORDE reported that...
Category: Committee
Graham Raines
Graham Raines Crew Member aboard the Hayling Island Atlantic 21 on a service to the yacht Dingaling on 9 October 1988.
Crew Member Raines entered the water in conditions near the limit of operation for an Atlantic 21 to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Constant Procession Board the 52Ft Arun for a Closer Look Round She Was Lying Alongside the Depot Quay Astern of the Prototype 47Ft Tyne
A constant procession board the 52ft Arun for a closer look round. She was lying alongside the depot quay, astern of the prototype 47ft Tyne.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs