LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Equipment of a Life-Boat
THE number of ropes and other stores which are perceived by anyone glancing into a Life-boat cause the admiring, if somewhat bewildered, landsman to ask what room is left for the rescued passengers; and even the seaman unused to Life-boat...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting and Presentation of Awards
Fast fleet 'on target' for 1993 WITH RECORD numbers of lifeboats under construction or on order, the RNLI's chairman, the Duke of Atholl told a packed Royal Festival Hall on May 12 of his vision of the service in the year...
Category: Meetings
Osprey
Bridlington, Yorkshire. At 4 p.m.
on ist October, 1965, the m.f.v. Osprey was reported to have stopped near Withernsea with engine failure. There was a moderate south-south-easterly breeze with a rough sea. The tide was...
Visit to the Faroes: Grace Paterson Ritchie the 70' Clyde Lifeboat Normally Stationed at Kirkwall Lying In Sand Harbour
Visit to the Faroes: Grace Paterson Ritchie, the 70' Clyde lifeboat normally stationed at Kirkwall, lying in Sand Harbour.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Gathering at Walford School Ealing for the Cheque Handing-Over (See Below) the School Has Adopted the Whitstable IRB
The gathering at Walford School, Ealing, for the cheque handing-over (see below). The school has adopted the Whitstable IRB.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A 37-Foot Oakley Life-Boat Was Displayed at the Royal Show In Edinburgh from 20th-24th June, 1967
A 37-foot Oakley life-boat was displayed at the Royal Show in Edinburgh from 20th-24th June, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
'A YEAR of intense activity and gratifying success for the lifeboat service" is the phrase used in the RNLI's report to describe the happenings in 1972. The facts certainly justify this. The total number of lives saved, which is...
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Baywyke
COMPASS TROUBLE At 3.30 a.m. on ist March, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been sighted two miles south-east of Collieston coastguard lookout.
There was a gentle south-southwesterly wind...
A Cabin cruiser
RED FLARES At 5.15 p.m. on ist December, 1964, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser off Broad Bench had fired red flares. There was a choppy sea with a moderate to fresh north-easterly wind. The...
Penlee Formal Investigation
The findings of the Formal Investigation ordered by the Department of Trade into the loss on December 19, 1981, of the coaster Union Star with her eight people and of Penlee lifeboat Solomon Browne with her crew of eight lifeboatmen. THE...
Category: Articles