LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Trials for Two
An investigation, by instrument and direct observation, into hull sea-keeping ability at high speed in rough water and the resultant fatigue experienced by man and machinery 50' Thames class prototype and 52' Arun Mk, II off...
Category: Articles
Coinin Ban
Family rescue An unusual family rescue began on 11 July 1991 when James Tyrrell, the brother of Arklow's second coxswain and who is also the station's honorary secretary set sail with another friend in his 18ft sailing dinghy Coinin...
Whisky Mac
Three rescued from yacht in severe gales The events leading up to Alderney lifeboat' s service to the 23ft yacht Whisky Mac are recounted in the report of St Peter Port lifeboat's Silver Medal service to the yacht Sena Sioria (main...
Peep Into the Past
100 years ago The Autumn ' 906Life-boatJournat congratulated female fundraisers for their hard work after another successful Lifeboat Saturday: 'They are less ready to take a refusal than the "sterner"sex, and, this being...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1936
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held in Greater London on 19th May, carried out by ninety-two branches. The amount raised was £5,046, an increase of £138 on 1935.
The challenge shield for...
Category: Branches
‘I CAN DO THIS’
RNLI crew around the UK and Ireland are often called heroes for their acts of incredible bravery. But they are as human as the rest of us
You’re the ones with RNLI written all over you. You’re the people who are there to...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Chairman — THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., r.p.
JSlfrtiarg — RICHARD Luwis, of the Inner Temple,...
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Guide Me
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Liza, Scheherazade and Golden Venture
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Your Letters
Buckle offers Following publication of my letter in THE LIFEBOAT of Autumn 1991 which explained I was seeking an RNLI buckle for a leather belt like the one my father used to own, I have been lucky and had a belt and buckle sent to me, as...
Category: Correspondence