LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Exercising the Life-Boat
As soon as possible after the arrival of a new Life-boat at her Station an exer- cise is held, preferably in rough weather, in order not only to test her sea-going qualities, but also as a means of giving the crew some experience of the boat...
Category: Articles
A Hard Shoulder to Lean On.
A hard shoulder to lean on.
Motorists on the M25 had something to distract them from the inevitable traffic jams in July when the ex- Courtmacsherry Solent class lifeboat R.
Hope Roberts made a passage to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Income and Expenditure—1st Jan. To 31st Dec., 1955
INCOME AND EXPENDITURE— 1st Jan. to 31st Dec., 1955. 1954 £ 216,657 385 32,751 9,758 354 37,173 11,126 EXPENDITURE LIFE-BOATS :— New Life- boats for the following Stations : On account — Berwick - on - Tweed, Campbeltown, ...
Category: Accounts
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A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
An Aircraft
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—During the night of the 31st March, 1938, the coastguard reported that an aircraft had come down in the sea off Brighton, and was firing Very lights. A light west breeze was blowing, with a slight sea. The motor...
Loss of the "Arctic." Heroic Conduct of An Englishman
HEROIC CONDUCT OF AN ENGLISHMAN.
IT is with the mingled feeling of melancholy pleasure that is peculiar to the contemplation of great acts which have caused the death of the actors of them, that we add to our series of...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 22 AN OUTSTANDING DAY: THE CROWN OF A MEMORABLE YEAR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE from all parts of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, and, indeed, from many other parts of the world, came to the Royal Festival...
Category: Meetings
Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman
Bronze Medal Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman of Aldeburgh for the service to the yacht Red House Lugger on 29 August 1996 - see ThtLfftbott Winter 1996/ 7 for a full report of the service. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Splendid Ten Foot Model of the Rnli Medina Lifeboat Mountbatten of Burma Is Named By Councillor Mrs Frances Humpherson President of Newton Abbot Branch Lt John Gorrill Chairman of Th
A splendid ten foot model of the RNLI Medina lifeboat Mountbatten of Burma is named by Councillor Mrs Frances Humpherson, president of Newton Abbot branch. Lt John Gorrill, chairman of the branch who once served aboard HMS Kelly under Earl... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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