LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....

The RNLI's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards were held once again on London's South Bank on Tuesday 10 May 1994. Once again both meetings attracted a large and interested assembly to hear of the Institution's work...

JERSEY CENTEMRY Six famous rescues are immortalised by Jersey Artist Gerald Palmer in this dramatic set of stamps commemorating the R.N.L.I. Jersey Lifeboat Station Centenary.

ISSUE DATE 1st JUNE 1984 The Jersey Post Office...

at the annual meeting of the R. N.L.I.

on 18th May, Mr. Derek Scott, of Mumbles, who holds the B.E.M., the Institution's silver medal and bar and the bronze medal, belongs to the new generation of life-boatmen. He was...

Station Aberdeen Aberdovey Abersoch Aberystwyth Aith Aldeburgh Alderney Amble Amble Angle Anstruther Appledore Arbroath Arbroath Arklow Arran Arranmore Atlantic College Ballycotton Ballyglass Baltimore Bangor Barmouth Barra Island Barrow...

1993 and all that! The London Boat Show at Earls Court this January marks the 25th anniversary of the launch of the Yachtsmen's Lifeboat Supporters Association - the organisation which evolved and expanded into the membership scheme as...

On the 3rd De- cember, during a strong N.E. gale, the brig Queen Victoria, of South Shields, was totally wrecked on the Barnard Sand. The life-boat put off, and succeeded in saving one of the crew from the rigging. The remainder, 7 in number...

On the 10th November, the brig Roclidale, of London, was wrecked, and afterwards sunk, off Has- borough, during squally weather. The Grocers life-boat went out and rescued the crew of 7 men from the ship's boat, to which they had taken,...