LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
Category: Articles
The Ex-Naval Cutter Overdraft II
Anchor dragged A RADIO MESSAGE from the charter boat Aqua-Manda, that the ex-naval cutter Overdraft II had run out of fuel and dragged her anchor and was drifting with two people on board, was reported to the honorary secretary of Clactonon-...
The Second Hen Island Challenge Race
The second Hen Island Challenge Race, for home-built craft which have cost no more than £25 and which have never before put to sea, was sailed in Northern Ireland last October; Portaferry D class inflatable lifeboat acted as one of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
This photograph by Mr. Ronald E. Turner of the R.N.L.I.'s hull drawing office staff shows one of the Institution's McLachlan fast rescue boats—the fast R.N.L.I, rescue craft to be specifically designed for the Institution with a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boatman's Gallant Swim
AT 10.20 on the night of the 27th of July, 1952, the Flamborough Head coastguard telephoned the Flam- borough life-boat station that a young man had reported a friend of his in difficulties on a cliff near the Stacks Rocks at Flamborough...
Category: Services
I Doubt Whether There Exists In This Country a Finer Collection of Men and Women Nor a Better Living Example of the Spirit of Voluntary Service Throughout the World'
From a painting by Michael Turner which appeared with Paul Pickering's and Donald McLachlan's article 'For Those In Peril On the Sea' in Reader's Digest for February, 1972. The incident occurred in 1966 when the Holyhead... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal Honours
A young solo sailor was among the selfless RNLI volunteers and fundraisers recognised by HM The Queen in this year’s Birthday Honours.
Natasha Lambert was the youngest of the seven RNLI recipients named for their...
Category: Articles
Plans for RNLI lifeboat station at Portishead
Portishead Lifeboat Trust has requested that the RNLI takes on the running of the independent Portishead and Bristol lifeboat.
Our Trustees have agreed, in principle, to pursue the adoption of the Somerset station, but...
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READER INSPIRATION: WORDS
I am a member of a writers’ group. Recently we were asked to write about a lighthouse. It brought me back to my childhood when I was always fascinated by the man in the lighthouse. Those times have passed...
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Two New Life-Boat Films
Two new films, Troubled Waters and The Village Turned Out, are now avail- able to branches for showing to non- paying audiences. Troubled Waters, which runs for six minutes, shows a launch by night of the Walmer life- boat. Wrecks on the...
Category: Articles