LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rescue Team
1. Coxswain/mechanic - Mersey class lifeboat The coxswain is responsible for all decisions om the lifeboat is at sea and for the safety of the boat and its crew. At this station the coxswain is also the full-time mechani has to make sure... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Phoenix Was Inflatable By Joan Davies
UNDER THE NEVER-CEASING INFLUENCE of current and tidal stream, the coastline of our islands quietly moulds its contours to the pattern of the sea. Equally, our seaboard towns and villages reflect in their industries, population and way of...
Category: Articles
Classification of Service Launches of Life-Boats for 1970 Compared With1969
Classification of service launches of life-boats for 7970 compared with 7969 Class —Naval vessels —Foreign going merchant vessels —Home trade merchant vessels —Commercial fishing vessels —Powered pleasure craft —Sailing pleasure craft...
Category: Services
Boat World (Publications)
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Category: Advertisement
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Category: Advertisement
10 years on the beaches
The RNLI prides itself on a long lifesaving tradition but, in order to save more lives, it is alert to changes in how people use the sea
People still go to sea for a living. But by the year...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 16th May, 1935.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Co-opted Captain Sir Ion Hamilton Benn, Bt., C.B., D.S.O., R.N.V.R., a member of the committee of management.
Received...
Category: Committee
THE SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT DISASTER
Friday 27 October 1916 started with a rescue and ended in tragedy – one of the worst in RNLI history. It is a story of courage,
sacrifice and loss. 100 years on, a lifeboat town remembers the crew who never came home
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1949 and January and February, 1950. 112 Lives Rescued
DURING December life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 19 lives.
THE MEN FROM THE PRU Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of December, 1949, the pier shore attandant reported that a boat in which...
Category: Services
The Minesweeper President Briand and the S.S. Goole
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SHOREHAM HARBOUR NOVEMBER 16TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Just after one in the morning the motor lifeboat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn went out to the help of the minesweeper President Briand. A strong south wind...