LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Why Does She Get Launched?
WHY does she get launched ? A ship, that is.
In other words, why, really, is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne ? Here are the answers,...
Category: Articles
The Rnli In Ireland By Edward Wake-Walker
There are 24 lifeboat stations around the coast of Ireland. Provisional figures for 1986 show that their 26 lifeboats (Dun Laoghaire and Howth have both D class and fast afloat lifeboats) launched 181 times rescuing 98 lives. The RNLI's...
Category: Articles
Glencoe, Mistley, Cambria, Decima, Nelson,Verona and Houston City
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT SOUTHEND - ON - SEA DECEMBER 6-11TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. The gale of the 5th of December, in which the motor life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3) had been out for five hours and had towed in a...
High Seas...
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Tenby -- West Division Tenby, in Pembrokeshire, has one of the longest slipways in the country, its 360ft extending from the boathouse off Castle Hill into deep water. The...
Category: Articles
A Fine Service at Holyhead
ON the evening of the 7th October, 1938, a small coaster was reported by the coastguard watchman at Rhosneigir to be making distress signals between Rhosneigir and Porthdinllaen. The Porthdinllaen and Holyhead life-boat stations were...
Category: Services
ElectroMotion
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Category: Advertisement
Friends of the RNLI
Hungry for more?
Want to know even more about lifeboats, lifeboat history, lifeboat stations and sea rescue? Then look no further than Lifeboats Past & Present, the magazine published three times a year by the Lifeboat...
Category: Articles
News
News Battered and brave A passing journalist captured one of the most iconic images of the RNLI’s history when he photographed the Scarborough lifeboat and crew in action in May 2005 (above). They were searching for a mother and her children...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
'Thursday, 10th May, 1934.
The Hon. GEORGE COLVILLE in the chair.
Passed a vote of thanks to H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, K.G., president of the Institution, for his kindness in presiding at the 110th...
Category: Committee
Fairwood
Fowey, Cornwall.—At 11.59 on the night of the 29th of July, 1956, it was reported that the yacht Fairwood was dragging her anchor close to the life-boat's moorings. The life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, put out. The sea...