LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE Dunbar inshore lifeboat returns to harbour after giving display on lifeboat day, July 20. She is a 16' D class inflatable lifeboat built by RFD. Inner tubes fitted within the buoyancy tubes markedly improve air-holding over... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
January
JANUARY Launches 71. Lives rescued 221.
JANUARY 3RD. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. A fishing boat was caught in a S.E. gale with a very rough sea. The motor life-boat K.T.J.S. was launched at 10.20 A.M., found the boat five...
Category: Services
Joan Manning District Organising Secretary (Midland Shires) Was at Worcester to Meet Two Other Adventurers Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock As They Reached the En
Joan Manning, district organising secretary (Midland Shires), was at Worcester to meet two other adventurers, Adam Chinery and Graham Pocock, as they reached the end of a 100-mile sponsored canoe paddle from Welshpool. Adam and Graham,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Co-operative Funeralcare
Co-operative Funeralcare ff :.: — • Funeral Pre-Payment Plan from Co-operative Funeralcare It's always a good idea to plan ahead and with a Funeral Pre-Payment Plan from Co-operative Funeralcare, you can do just that. There are three...
Category: Advertisement
Past and Present
50 Years Ago The following article appeared in the December, 1936, issue of THE LIFEBOAT: The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee, 1910-1935, reached Wells, Norfolk, on llth February...
Category: Articles
Tin Fish
SCARBOROUGH, August 1, 1987: the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Amelia arrives back at Scarborough with the 38ft yacht Tin Fish which she had towed 24 miles after the vessel's engines had failed. A force 5/6 north-westerly wind at the...
The Change to Ultra High Frequency
EFFICIENT means of communication at sea between life-boats and aircraft have been of growing importance in recent years. Particularly vital is the link be- tween life-boats and helicopters, for the number of services in which life- boats and...
Category: Articles
Functional Clothing Ltd
THE BEST WEATHER CLOTHING IN THE WORLD AIRFLOW COAT JACKET LIGHTWEIGHT JACKETS CONDENSATION ARE WATERPROOF FREE FROM LU ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Letter of 28 February 1974 from Assistant Superintendent (Stores) • Your company'...
Category: Advertisement
A Vessel (27)
J ULY 2 0 T H. - DONAGHADEE, CO.
DOWN. A vessel had struck a mine in Belfast Lough, but her crew had got ashore in the ship’s boats. - Rewards, £4 10s..
An Aeroplane (86)
AUGUST 12TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX.
During an air battle an enemy aeroplane had crashed three miles off, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £6 3s. 6d.