LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution for the Purchase of the Following Life-Boats
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Category: Donations
(Right) the Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats Is Responsible for the Efficient Operation of Lifeboats In His Area and Carries Out Frequent Exercises With His Coxswains and Cre
(Right) The divisional inspector of lifeboats is responsible for the efficient operation of lifeboats in his area and carries out frequent exercises with his coxswains and crews. He works in close co-operation with the district engineer, who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Denmark
By C. V. FABRICIUS, Manager of the North Jutland Life-Boat Institution.
THE Danish Life-Boat Institution, as at present organised, was established by the Act of 26th March, 1852.
It is an institution...
Category: Articles
Launching and Recovery—Part III: Tractor and Carriage Launch By Edward Wake-Walker Assistant Public Relations Officer (London)
SEAMEN, FISHERMEN and private boat owners all know that whenever they put to sea, together with an awareness of the state of the weather and of what is forecast, the state of the tide is of paramount importance to their...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT AREA No.1 Trawler Snatch WHIN the Longhope, Orkney, lifeboat station was informed at 11.54 p.m. on February 9 that the trawler Ross Tern was ashore on Troma Island and was breaking up, the lifeboat crew mustered in good...
Category: Services
Inshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1979
Aberdovey, Gwynedd March 7, 17, April 17 (twice) and May 28 Abersoch, Gwynedd March 24, April 5, 19 and 28 Atlantic College, South Glamorgan April 15 (twice), 22 (twice), May 5, 6 and 29 Bangor, Co. Down April 27, May 14 and 20 Barmouth,...
Category: Services
Rescue from Coaster After Nine Hour-Passage
AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 7th of December, 1959, the honorary secre- tary of the Cromarty life-boat station, Mr. James Cameron, learnt from the coastguard that the coaster Servus of Leith needed help nine and a half miles south-by-east...
Category: Services
Women's Work By Ray Kipling
Women's Work . . .
. . . IN THE RNLI IT IS NEVER DONE.
by Ray Kipling DEPUTY PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICER, RXLI '/ don't know where we would have been sometimes without the ladies. No credit would...
Category: Articles
Telegraphic Communication With Lightships
IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...
Category: Articles
Past and Present
75 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1920 The great difficulty in the way of Life-boat launches on flat beaches is the difficulty of the horses. It is becoming increasingly hard to get the use of horses and the men to manage them, and they...
Category: Articles