LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In deep water
Few people living inland would expect to rely on the RNLI to keep safe in their own communities but this was the reality for many driven from their homes by fl ooding in September 2008. The town of Morpeth, Northumberland, was worst hit when...
Category: Articles
The Prototype 47Ft Tyne Fast Slipway Lifeboat City of London
The prototype 47ft Tyne fast slipway lifeboat City of London (1) and the relief 33ft Brede lifeboat to be named Merchant Navy heading out through Poole Harbour at the start of their passage to Gothenburg where they were demonstrated at the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Scottish AGM
The Annual General Meeting of the Scottish Lifeboat Council was held on Wednesday 27 April 1994 in the Banqueting Hall of Glasgow's famous City Chambers. The meeting followed a civic reception for awardees and special guests provided by...
Category: Meetings
"Many Inventions."
IT is only natural in this and other countries that the humane desire to improve the means for saving life from shipwreck should appeal to and occupy the minds of men -with a turn for invention or mechanically...
Category: Articles
Working Together from Page 93
Working Together from page 93 You have only got to touch it with a rope, or something like that, and there is no problem.
Kennett: We just give them a flick as soon as they come down. That is good...
Category: Articles
January
JANUARY Launches 32. Lives rescued 76.
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off...
Category: Services
The Late Sir Edward Birkbeck, Bart., K.C.V.O.
THE subscribers and friends of the | At the meeting of the Committee of ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION- Management next following the death will have heard with great regret of Sir Edward Birkbeck, held on the that Sir Edward Birkbeck,...
Category: Obituaries
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APRIL 24TH. - COURTMACSHERRY, CO. CORK. An object had been reported in the sea off Seven Heads, but nothing was found.
Later it was learned that it was part of a barrage balloon. - Rewards, £11 15s. 6d..
Services: Scott's Feat In Dinghy
SCOTT'S FEAT IN DINGHY NEWS of a boy in the water clinging to an upturned boat on 12th April led to the Mumbles, Glamorganshire coxswain, Mr. Derek Scott, B.E.M., taking out a dinghy as with the strong ebb tide which was running he...
Category: Services
A Giant Dummy Cheque for £25000 Towards a Replacement Lifeboat at Sheringham Came from the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows Commander Ralph Swann a Member
A giant dummy cheque for £25,000 towards a replacement lifeboat at Sheringham came from the Manchester Unity of Oddfellows. Commander Ralph Swann, a member and former Chairman of the Committee of Management (/.). accepted the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs