LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) There Were No Open Days In 1994
(Below) There were no open days in 1994 as the new facilities at Cowes were under construction. This was the first opportunity for visitors to see how the Atlantics are built and maintained in their new purpose-built workshops.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boy Eric
APRIL 19TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M. the naval base reported a fishing boat, off the North Foreland, in need of a tow into harbour. She was the Boy Eric, of Lowestoft, on voyage, with a crew of two, to Ramsgate for repairs. A light S.W...
Cullercoats:
Cullercoats: Miss Diana Phillips afloat in the C class inflatable lifeboat partly funded by her gift in memory of her parents, Mr and Mrs H. A. Phillips; she was shown the lifeboat at RNLI Cowes base before it was sent to Cullercoats, where,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
BROUGHTY FERRY, DUNDEE. — On the 24th October, 1868, the barque Betty and Louise, of Hamburg, was stranded during a strong gale on the Cruivie Bank, near Buddon Ness. The Mary Hartley life- boat was quickly manned and launched, and succeeded...
Category: Services
Whose sea is it anyway?
The RNLI's lifeboats operate to 100 miles from shore – but who controls the waters they navigate?
Freedom of the Seas
Across the world, land has been divided by mankind...
Category: Articles
The Centenary: In Ireland
Dublin.
Centenary Meeting.
THE Centenary Meeting was held on 24th March. The Right Hon. Andrew Jameson, P.C., D.L., the Chairman of the Branch, presided, and, in the course of his speech moving the...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE.—At the request of the crew, the boat on this station has been replaced by a new self-righting Life- boat, 30 feet long, 8 feet wide, and rowing 8 oars double-banked. A new transport- ing-carriage was sent with the boat....
Category: Articles
Municipal Life Assurance
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Category: Advertisement
Omega Profiles Limited
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Carried out to sea IN THE EARLY HOURS of Thursday August 14, 1980, a 999 call to Great Yarmouth Coastguard reported a woman calling for help from the river near the North Pier opposite the Coastguard lookout. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston...