LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From the "Evening Standard" 100 Years Ago
" WE regret to state that the effects of yesterday's gale have been of a most disastrous character as regards the destruction of property. That human life has not been sacrificed to a most deplorable extent is attributed solely to...
Category: Articles
The End of H.M.S. Warspite. A Dangerous Service By Penlee
AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...
Category: Services
Visiting Lifeboats came to Poole on passage to or from Jersey from West Germany and the Netherlands
THE WEST GERMAN lifeboat Eiswette visited Poole on May 30 and 31 before sailing to Jersey for St Helier lifeboat station's centenary celebrations on June 1 and 2. While in Poole, Carl Max Vater, vice-chairman, and other senior officials...
Category: Articles
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At 8.35 P.M.
on the 18th February, information was received from the Coastguard that rocket signals had been seen between Pepper- combe and Clovelly, but that nothing further was known. The motor Life- boat V.C.S. was...
Red Bay and Larne Lifeboat Crews
Red Bay And Larne Lifeboat Crews. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Richard Oakley, MBE, MRINA
A new tvpe of lifeboat, known as the Oakley tvpe, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
Category: Obituaries
News and Views
HM The Queen Mother's 100th birthday paradethought it was a wonderful day I was delighted to be involved ' Peter Woolhouse, Volunteer Fundraiser Lifeboatmen and women from England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland helped to make...
Category: Articles
Life-Belts and Swimming
WE have, in previous Numbers of this Journal, advocated the use of life-belts, both on shipboard and in boats, especially in life- boats; and we have recommended the ac- quirement of the art of swimming by every one. As we think the subject...
Category: Articles
Electrical Communication With Light-Houses and Light-Vessels for Life-Saving Purposes
IT will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION con- tained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chair- man of...
Category: Articles
(Right} Is Taken on a Tour of Inspection of Rotary Service By (I) Cdr Bruce Cairns Chief of Operations Rnli and (R) Captain Peter White
(right} is taken on a tour of inspection of Rotary Service by (I.) Cdr Bruce Cairns, chief of operations RNLI, and (r.) Captain Peter White,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs