LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: Simply Supply?
If you are the kind of person who has difficulty finding a pair of matching socks in the morning, spare a thought for staff at the new Lifeboat Support Centre in Poote In this one giant building the RNLI stores spares for lifeboats,...
Category: Articles
Leverton
Some people take their pleasure seriously Boat owners who take pleasure seriously, take a very dim view of anything that interrupts their pursuit of happiness.
This simple fact is causing more skippers to choose (AT Marine...
Category: Advertisement
A Vessel (34)
OCTOBER 29TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. A vessel had been reported in distress about ten miles east of Barra Head, but nothing could be found. - Rewards : first launch, £10 13s. ; second launch £21 2s. 6d.
A Touch Of Brass Can Lead To So Much More
A touch of brass can lead to so much more The names of RNLI boats give tantalising hints of their origin. Here, Carol Waterkeyn takes the rare opportunity to meet the man behind one such name When news of a legacy arrives at RNLI...
Category: Articles
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 9th June, 1910.
Colonel Sir Fitzroy CLAYTON, K.C.V.O..V.P., in the Chair.
Read a letter from His Majesty's Principal Secretary oi State for Home Affairs conveying His Majesty's thanks...
Category: Committee
Y.L.A. Section
A New Appointment MR. Alasdair Garrett has been appointed to promote the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association in the field and to start what, it is hoped, will be a big and successful drive to recruit new members. For some...
Category: Articles
First time
4 November 2011: It was a big moment for 17-year-old Matt Ratcliffe, Tobermory lifeboat’s newest and youngest crew member, when his pager went off for the first time. The crew towed home a fishing vessel that had...
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Front Cover
Front Cover With so much spray flying there is no way of telling that this is actually Atlantic College's Atlantic 21 American Ambassador which Rick Tomlinson's camera has caught punching through a sea at speed.
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Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A new life-boat has been recently stationed at Moelfre, a fishing village, on the north-eastern coast of the island of Anglesey, in lieu of the former lifeboat stationed there, which has been removed to replace a worn-out...
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