LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Chuckles from the 1930s
Thirty odd years ago it was my duty and my privilege to act as escort to Sir Godfrey Baring, K.B.E., then Chairman of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, on his frequent visits to the North West District and, at a later period, to...
Category: Articles
Blenwatch the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Donated to the Rnli By Fred Olsen Lines Was Presented to (I) Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston a Deputy Chairman of the Institution By Peter R
Blenwatch, the Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat donated to the RNLI by Fred Olsen Lines, was presented to (I.) Vice-Admiral Sir Peter Compston, a deputy chairman of the Institution, by Peter Robinson, Fred Olsen's passenger director... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Accept No Substitute
Radios, helicopters, MRCCs - they have all altered the face of modern Search and Rescue.
But there are things for which the lifeboat is still best, as two friends of yachting writer and television broadcaster Malcolm McKeag...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
United States Life-Saving Service
WE have received within the last few weeks the Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1889, issued from the Government Printing Office at Washington, the Service being a...
Category: Articles
Here and There
Like father, like son A remarkable and honourable tradition is being carried on in the Keay family of Grayburn, near Invergowrie.
Captain T. A. Colin Keay is a member of the Committee of Management and chairman of Dundee...
Category: Articles
Young Fox
At-6.30 A.M.
on 19th February the watchman re- ported that a vessel was ashore about one and a half miles north of the station.
The crew of the No. 1 Life-boat Edward Birtteck were promptly assembled and...
Mary B.
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...