LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From the Director
It is a relief to be writing my annual message for The Lifeboat as a welcome alternative to sending letters to the editors of the Sunday Telegraph and Private Eye! Many of you will have read the articles in those publications and will share...
Category: Articles
Duplex Craft
Duplex Craft has produced two versions of a 12th scale plastic kit for an Atlantic 21 lifeboat model based on the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Atlantic: one version is for a static model (price £24.95), the other for a working,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The survivors of MV Dorset on board the Waveney Castle after being rescued
The survivors of MV Dorset on board the Waveney Castle after being rescued. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THREE LIFEBOAT STATIONS have recently been re-opened. One of these is Fraserburgh, the station which suffered two major disasters in less than 20 years and from which the lifeboat was withdrawn after the 1970 disaster.
The...
Category: Articles
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
SALVAGE PAYMENTS TO LIFEBOATS' CREWS.
As it often happens that the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are the means of saving vessels and their cargoes from destruction, or of materially contributing...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the November, December and January meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
Kingstown, Co. Dublin.—At 9.5 A.M.
on the 20th August information was received...
Category: Services
Donaghadee Life-Boat Stands By Norwegian Ship
(see page 335). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fig 4: Impression of Reverse In White Metal
Fig 4: Impression Of Reverse In White Metal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI and the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund
The RNLI and the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund both received cheques for £475 in March as the result of a fire engine pull from Cheltenham to Tewksbury. The event saw Cheltenham branch members, together with local fire fighters... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cunopus
Sails blown out RED FLARES SIGHTED in the vicinity of Les Hanois Lighthouse were reported to the honorary secretary of St Peter Port lifeboat station at 2215 on Friday, November 11, 1977. A quarter of an hour later the 52ft Arun lifeboat Sir...