LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

IT was .in 1904 that, as an experiment, the first petrol engine was fitted in a pulling and sailing life-boat. It was an engine of 10 horse power. Two years later three other sailing life-boats were fitted with larger engines. The experiment...

INVERGORDON | 6 SEPTEMBER
Invergordon RNLI rescued a man from a sinking Land Rover at Cromarty Firth. The all-weather lifeboat Douglas Aikman Smith was called at 6.40am to Invergordon Sailing Club...

Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—9th October, 1938. The Norwegian steamer Dixie was in trouble through the failure of her engine off the Antrim coast, but a breakdown in communications prevented the news reaching the Donaghadee life-boat station....

The RNLI plan 2010–14 is now available to view online, at rnli.org.uk/fiveyearplan.

The plan sets out clearly how the RNLI intends to carry on its proud tradition while addressing potentially difficult times ahead. See...

(Far left) The 'picking' is under way as Mary Thomson and Juliette Kay check their baskets. A simple system checks the goods against both the order form and the delivery note. So mistakes can't happen, can they?. - View image in PDF

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LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made possible by the system of coast communication which had recently been...

A jumble sale with unusual features was organised by Lady Templetown for the Kirkcudbright branch. The older clothes given for the sale were sold in the usual manner, but a number of Lady Templetown's young friends acted as models to...