LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pool Fisher (1)
Capsized coaster IN THE EARLY MORNING of Tuesday November 6, 1979, Niton Radio, Isle of Wight received a mayday call from the coaster Pool Fisher: 'We are going over, position south west of St Catherine's Point'. Nothing more was...
Index to Advertisers
Avon Rubber Co. Ltd Beaufort (Air-Sea) Equipment Ltd Bideford Shipyard Ltd Birds Eye Foods Brooke Marine Ltd Henry Browne & Son Ltd L. J. Bushnell & Partners Cassell Collier Coastal Radio Ltd Cogswell & Harrison Ltd Ever Ready Co...
Category: Index
Services of the Life-Boats In November and December, 1952, and January and February, 1953. 112 Lives Rescued
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Category: Services
H.R.H. The Prince George, K.G., at Aldeburgh. Inaugural Ceremony of the New Motor Life-Boat
ON 27th May, H.R.H. the Prince George, K.G., named the new Motor Life-boat stationed at Aldeburgh, Suffolk. This is the seventh Motor Life-boat to be named by the Prince.
The Aldeburgh boat is the first of a new type...
Category: Inaugurations
Atlantic 21 Righting Demonstrations Were Given Three Times a Day
Atlantic 21 righting demonstrations were given three times a day.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tin- Relief Atlantic 21 Inflatable Long Life 1 on Exercise
Tin- Relief Atlantic 21 Inflatable Long Life I On Exercise. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Firms and Their Products
• The Hovercat Mk. 2 multipurpose amphibious hovercraft (Hovermarine Transport Ltd., Hazel Wharf, Hazel Road, Woolston, Southampton) has a wide range of roles.
The Hovercat depicted above is fitted out for casualty...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK,—About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea immediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister...
Category: Services
Benefactors: "Not of An Age, But for All Time." Henry Greathead. [Born 1757. Died 1813]
IT is our national boast that Britannia rules the waves, and so it was only befitting that the honour of, inventing the Life-boat should fall to the lot of a Briton. Whether or not Henry Greathead was that particular Briton has been a matter...
Category: Articles
Getting the most from giftaid
Most of the RNLI’s UK supporters boost their donations by using Gift Aid, which allows the charity to claim back the basic rate tax that donors have already paid on donations. This brings in a very large amount indeed (about £4M...
Category: Articles