LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From the Director
Lt Cdr Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1989 - and forward to a new decade J.t is difficult to believe that a whole year has passed since my last message in the journal. The old adage of time passing ever more quickly as the...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BT VOLCHTARY OOKTBIBUTIOBS.
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Breach of the peace
When two teens were swept into a rough sea on 28 December 2009, one was washed straight back to safety. The other wasn’t so lucky, but help was on its way
A south easterly force 6 was blowing on the south Devon coast. Seas...
Category: Articles
An Inland Service
To the help of a flooded farm. - View image in PDF
(See page 267.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
"Sublime Impertinence."
OUR District Organizing Secretary in I the North of England has sent us the | following story as an example of " the i value of the sovereign and the power of ; suggestion." It is an excellent example also of the gift, invaluable...
Category: Articles
Spray Hazard
FOR a long search in bad weather on 22nd March, 1969, for the fishing boat Crusader additional monetary awards have been paid to the crew of the Ilfracombe, North Devon, life-boat.
At 2.20 a.m. it was learnt that a fishing...
Category: Services
Fishing Cobles
Several of the fishing-cobles, when returning from their fishing on the 23rd October, were overtaken by a heavy sea. Most of them succeeded in making the harbour in safety, but the last boat, which was some distance behind the others, was ex...
Light Motor Life-Boats.
By Commander Edward D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Chijf Inipsctor of Life-boats.
UNTIL 1921 Motor Life-boats could only | be placed at Stations where it was possible to build a Launching Slipway, or where the boat could...
Category: Articles
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G., at Blackpool. Naming of Motor Life-Boat and Opening of New Boat-House
ON 21st October H.R.H. the Duke of Kent, K.G., President of the Institu- tion, named the new motor life-boat at Blackpool and opened the new boat- house on a site, in the centre of the sea front, provided by the...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Deck Ban.
Kg. 3.
Kg. 4.
; Body Han, Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats,...
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