LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Split-Second Timing Is Needed With Many Manoeuvres None More So Than the Emergency Beaching Procedure - the Outboards Must Be Raised at Exactly the Right Moment
Split-second timing is needed with many manoeuvres, none more so than the emergency beaching procedure - the outboards must be raised at exactly the right moment. - View image in PDF
(Photo David Parker). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ready to launch
Volunteer crew members are now on stand-by 24/7 at new trial lifeboat stations at Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, and Union Hall, Co Cork. The RNLI has declared both stations as search and rescue assets, with Atlantic 75 inshore...
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An Aeroplane (23)
MAY 29TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea S. by E. of Shoreham Harbour, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £5 2s. 6d..
Night Signals
NIGHT SIGNALS (wwfead of Ae a&ooe). Lights in Triangle or Square.
X i Pour lanterns and two yards, each not less than four feet long, will be sufficient—as only one signal will be used at night.
These...
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Humbert Bryce David Cape
Humbert Bryce David Cape, son of Crew Member David Cape and his wife Yvonne, was christened on board Humber lifeboat. - View image in PDF
The brass bell upturned in its stand used to be used to call out the crew at Spurn Point.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Toaster on the Left - the One With Rnli On
The toaster on the left - the one with RNLI on it - won the golden toaster award (the more conventional one on the right) in Noel Edmonds' Late Late Breakfast Show on BBC TV. The country's most powerful toaster, capable of shooting a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
St.Alban's and District
With the RNLI advertisement '£5 buys him a pair of boots' in mind, St Alban's and District branch borrowed a set of protective clothing to highlight the need to raise funds. Branch member Alan Edmunds donned the clothing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend: "Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
Category: Medals
People and Places
a r o u n d and a b o u t t h e RNLI A fifty-first occasion for lottery draw To mark the RNLI's 51st national lottery, Brigadier Mike Wingate-Gray QBE MC and Bar, who served with the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch in the 51st Highland...
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People and Places
a r o u n d and a b o u t t h e RNLI King of the draw The names of the 20 lucky prize winners in the RNLI's 52nd national lottery were plucked from the drum on 31 January by Desmond Carrington, well-known actor and Radio 2 presenter.<...
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