LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swimming
is now some seventeen years since we felt it our duty to call the attention of the public to the lamentable disuse into which ; the Art of Swimming had fallen. Since that period great advances have been made in teaching this important...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 9th February, 1939.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Resolved that the St. Ives, Cornwall, station be temporarily closed.
Resolved that a joint meeting of the boat and...
Category: Committee
Letters
RNLI stamps • I am associated with the Appledore branch of the RNLI, for which Mr Barrie Smale, of Blacon, Chester, is a keen charity stamp collector. I first learned of the Institution when I read a letter written by Mr Smale about the...
Category: Correspondence
Build for life
Today, RNLI lifeboats are designed and built in-house. Soon, we will be fitting them out and doing their maintenance too, as project leader David Price explains ...
The pace of change in our...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors.
Mr. FRANCIS LE BOULANGER, honorary secretary of the Mumbles branch, has been elected an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable services which he has rendered to the...
Category: Awards
New Commercial
It was stated in our first Number that a part of the plan of this Journal would be to place on record deeds of gallantry in saving life from shipwreck, as an example and encouragement to others " to go and do likewise;" and perhaps...
Rescue
rescue Insight Here is just a handful of incidents from 2007 from around the UK and RoI to give an insight into the thousands of lifeboat rescues carried out each year. See pages 20–27 for rescues marked . 1 freeD frOm rOPeS aS water riSeS A...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Zulu Warrior
Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 1.56 p.m. on 26th June, 1965, the coastguard reported that the trawler Zulu Warrior of Castleton had broken down 7 miles eastby- west of Donaghadee. There was a strong westerly breeze and a moderate sea. The...
A Steamer (3)
Padstow, Cornwall.—23rd November, 1938. A steamer had been reported in distress twenty miles off Trevose Head, but she hauled down her signal and steamed away.—Rewards, £4 7s. 6d..