LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Above) Standard 16' High-Speed Inshore Lifeboat With Inflated Neoprene Hull Can Work In Shoal Water and Among Rocks Normal Crew Two But Can Carry Up to Ten Peopl
(Above) Standard 16' high-speed inshore lifeboat with inflated neoprene hull can work in shoal water and among rocks. Normal crew, two, but can carry up to ten people.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Income and Expenditure.—1st Jan. To 31st Dec. 1892
£. s. d. £.
8,125 1 - To NEW LIFE-BOATS, (exclusive of carriages and equipment) for the following Stations :— Abersoch, Atherfleld, Boul- mer, Biighsione Grange, Cahore, Caister (No. 2), Cul- daff,...
Category: Accounts
In May 1968 the First London Spring Fair In Which Many of the London Branches Co-Operated Was Held In Chelsea Old Town Hall 18-Year-Old Sarah Myles of London Wa
In May, 1968, the first London Spring Fair, in which many of the London branches co-operated, was held in Chelsea Old Town Hall. 18-year-old Sarah Myles, of London, was 'Miss Life-boat' and here she is shown driving along Kings Road,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New £70,000 Life-Boat
With the building of a 48 foot 6 inch steel-hulled life-boat the Royal National Life-boat Institution has introduced a new class of boat into the service. A life- boat of this type was shown to the press at Southampton on 17th July, 1969.<...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 26th June, 1930.
SIR GODFREY BARING, BT., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions :— £ s. d.
The Annie Ronald (of " Oak-...
Category: Committee
Appeal on Behalf of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The Angel of Death laughed aloud in his glee, As he wildly careered o'er the pitiless sea : To the winds and the waters he spake but a word, And the wind and the waters grew mad as they heard.
He laid his cold hand on...
Category: Poetry
Where Do We Go from Here?
RNLI lifeboats have a nominal working life of some 20 years, so when the Institution's current slipway-launched lifeboats reach the end of their twodecades of work in 2003 there will be an obvious need to replace them - but what should...
Category: Articles
A Speed Boat
Mechanical failures Arran (Lamlash) lifeboat crew were mustered on the evening of Sunday July 22, 1984, after Clyde Coastguard had been told that a speedboat was seen to be drifting towards the main channel between Hamilton Rock and...
Skegness lifeboats – an illustrated history
Skegness lifeboats – an illustrated history
by Nicholas Leach
Review by Rory Stamp
Take a walk today along the beach at Skegness, Lincolnshire, and there are plenty of signs of the times on view...
Category: Articles
Our Centenary Year
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
A VISITOR who called at Life-boat House this autumn made the remark that he never opened a newspaper without seeing in it something about the Life- boat Service....
Category: Articles