LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
State-Maintained Life-Boats In Norway
IN nine of the thirteen foreign countries ! which have National Life-boat Services, the Service is voluntarily maintained ! like our own, though, in some cases, with I grants-in-aid from the State. In the remaining five it is...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings: Station Branches.
BLACKPOOL (LANCASHIRE).—On 1st July, Councillor T. P. Fletcher, J.P., Deputy-Mayor, presiding. The report for the year ending 30th September, 1925, showed that £371 had been col-...
Category: Branches
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1908
No Blue Book issued by a Government department is more interesting or more important than that issued annually by the Board of Trade dealing, by means of " Abstracts " of returns, with all the shipping casualties which each year...
Category: Articles
Deck Level Exchange
At first glance the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and the RNLI appear poles apart. But the world's largest coastguard service and the RNLI have united to set up an exchange programme to help both services improve their ability to save...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
ON 21st January, 1970, Fraserburgh life-boat capsized with the loss of five members of her crew. There was only one survivor, Mr. Jackson Buchan. On 25th March Mr. Goronwy Roberts, Minister of State, Board of Trade, stated in the House of...
Category: Articles
Siobhan
Arranmore, Co. Donegal. At two o'clock on the morning of the 13th of September, 1959, the radio station at Malin Head informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was in distress sixteen miles eact of Tory Island. At 2.30...
An RNLI Lifeguard With a Family Caught Up In the Perranporth Incident
An RNLI Lifeguard With A Family Caught Up In The Perranporth Incident. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming Ceremonies
Relief fleet - D ciass City of Peterborough A new D class lifeboat funded by money raised from a special appeal in the Peterborough area, and organised by the local Peterborough branch, was officially handed over and dedicated in a ceremony...
Category: Inaugurations
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BRINGING 200 TONNES OF TRAWLER HOME
Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …
The...
Category: Articles