LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
North Berwick-Scotland Division Perched on the promentary at the very end of the Firth of Forth (seen stretching away in to the distance) North Berwick can be a rough place...
Category: Articles
Inshore Lifeboat Services December 1975 January and February 1976
Aberystwyth, Dyfed February 14.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd January 3 and February 15.
Conwy, Gwynedd February 7.
Eastney, Hampshire December 6, 30, January 7,25 and February 27.
Category: Services
Lifeboat Lexicon
Sea users have a language all of their own, and when you add the terms brought in by new technology and the demands of a specialised operation such as the lifeboat service the potential for confusion can be enormous! In The Lifeboat we try...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Richard Evans, of the Moelfre Life-Boat (left) Lt.-Cmdr. Harold Harvey, V.R.D., R.N.R., the Institution's Inspector of Life-Boats for the North West, and Coxswain Thomas Alcock, of the Holyhead Life-Boat
Coxswain Richard Evans, of the Moelfre life-boat (left), Lt.-Cmdr. Harold Harvey, V.R.D., R.N.R., the Institution's inspector of life-boats for the north west, and Coxswain Thomas Alcock, of the Holyhead life-boat, who between them were... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Medallists 1928-29
Coxswain Robinson, Second-Coxswain Nicholson and Motor Mechanic Scott, of New Brighton, Second- Coxswain Sim, of Fraserburgh, Coxswain Baker and Mr. Atkinson, Master of the tug, of Padstow, and Mr. Hugh MacKay, of Hilton,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Feature: Heart of the Matter
There was a buzz in the Barbican on 19 May 2005 as RNLI Governors, crew, fundraisers and other supporters gathered for a day of reflection and celebration RNLI core supporters came from all corners of the UK and the Republic of Ireland to...
Category: Articles
Rock and roller rescue
During a surfing competition, one bodyboarder got more excitement than he’d bargained for
The setting
During the Volcom surfing contest on 10 September...
Category: Articles
Heritage Publications
144 pages Many of the most stirring tales of 'the men who never turn back'— the crews of the R.N.L.I.—are included from the very beginning of the service to today. So, too, are the stories of rescue and heroics by others including...
Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
Fig 4
Fig 4 (below): Deep bilge keels, port and starboard, have now completed the protective tunnels for the propellers. - View image in PDF
'A' brackets and stern tubes, ready to take the propeller shafts, are fitted.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs