LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Automatic Lights to Be Fitted on Life-Jackets
THE Institution has decided to fit Aqualite L.20 automatic lights on all life-jackets in use in the service.
Trials of this lighting device have been carried out at twelve life-boat stations since April, 1960. The lights...
Category: Articles
Fishing Cobles
When the cobles were out fishing on the 23rd February, the sea increased so much as to cause the landing to be very dan- gerous, the Coxswain therefore took out the Life-boat Robert and Susan and stood by them as they came...
On November 2 a Delegation from the Spanish Red Cross of the Sea Lifeboat Society Paid a Goodwill Visit to Rnli Hq and Depot at Poole Going on the Next Day to Visit Lymington and Yarmouth
On November 2 a delegation from the Spanish Red Cross of the Sea lifeboat society paid a goodwill visit to RNLI HQ and depot at Poole, going on the next day to visit Lymington and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, lifeboat stations and the ILB depot... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Charity from the Workless
THE sum of £250,000 which the Institution needs each year to maintain the life-boat service works out at five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles. In a number of its appeals the Institution has been asking for this...
Category: Donations
Three Oyster Skiffs -The Gertrude, Gladstone, and Shah
SWANSEA.—At 8 o'clock on the night of the 29th April, three oyster skiffs— the Gertrude, Gladstone, and Shah—were observed from the shore to be in distress off the Mumbles Head. The force of the gale had carried away their spars and...
Naming Ceremony at Rhyl
THE new life-boat at Rhyl is a gift from Liverpool. She has been built out of a legacy from the late Mr. A. R.
Marshall, who was for many years the honorary secretary of the Port of Liverpool branch of the...
Category: Inaugurations
A Life-Boat Diary
"Ship" Ha'pennies for Life-boats A LARGE tin containing a thousand ha'pennies, all with the "ship" design on one side, has been given by Mr.
Henry Broom and his daughter Betty, of Bedford,...
Category: Articles
Your Chance to Win
Enter the autumn 2005 Lifeboat Lottery for a chance to win the star prize: a Proton GEN-2 1.6 CSX car, kindly provided by Proton Cars UK Ltd. You could also win one of eight cash prizes ranging from £100 to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mercantile Credit
New! for shoreline members sailing loans at reduced rates Now, as a Shoreline member, you're in a privileged position when it comes to financing your sailing.
Shoreline Sailing Loans are now available at special...
Category: Advertisement
The Heavy Gales of the 2nd and 3rd December, 1863. Life-Boat Services
AT no recent period have the disastrous effects of storms been more severely than during the hurricane of the 2nd and 3rd December last.
Its results were felt, more or less, in all parts of the country. About 11 A.M. on...
Category: Services