LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Out in the cold
When Skerries sea swimmer Sean O’Kelly became hypothermic during a swim around Colt Island, he didn’t quite believe it. ‘I could hear a voice saying: “Are you alright?”,’ he recalls, ‘I kept saying: “Yeah,” – but I wasn’t’
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ILFRACOMBE.—On the 27th May, 1894, the coastguard reported to the coxswain of the Life-boat that a dismasted vessel was lying off Heale Bay, nearly half a mile from the point. A moderate breeze was blowing from N.N.W., the weather was...
Category: Services
Prize-Winning Essay
A competition, open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen, for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held this year. The competition had been held regularly before the war, but it had not been...
Category: Articles
Epsom and Ewell Rnli Branch
Geoffrey Garrick, regional organiser for south London (I) receives a cheque for £710 from Cyril Mulchings, chairman of Epsom and Ewell swimming club, and hands over an RNLl plaque in return. The link between the boys and girls of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1857
Jan. 17,1856.—The brig Bonnie Marie, of Nantes, was observed in the night to hare a signal of distress flying. The Portmadoc life-boat, which belongs to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, manned by 12 men, put off to the vessel's...
Category: Articles
The Plymouth Motor Life-Boat: Inaugural Ceremony
THE Inaugural Ceremony, on 12th July, of the Plymouth Motor Life-boat, the third Life-boat to be built of the 60- feet Barnett Twin Screw type, was one of the most successful ever held. It took place in Plymouth's Civic Week, for which...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7* feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 74 feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
Windsor Lad II and Isabella
Filey, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 25th of October, 1949, while two local fishing cobles were out fishing, the south-easterly wind increased almost to a gale. The life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 11.10 in a heavy swell and finding...