LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Type of Life-Boat
A NEW type of life-boat, known as the Oakley type, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
Category: Articles
Supporters of the year
Every RNLI supporter helps save lives at sea, but there are some who deserve special recognition. At our Annual Presentation of Awards dozens of dedicated supporters were honoured. Prestigious supporter awards were presented in the following...
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Susan, Olivia Mary
At 5.18 p.m. on i6th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a motor boat with three people on board was in need of assistance one and a half miles east north east of Foreness point. The IRB was launched at 5.22 in a fresh...
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Nov. 1ST. - STROMNESS, ORKNEYS. At 10.40 P.M. a message was received from the Kirkwall coastguard that a vessel was ashore at North Ronaldshay, sixty miles away. A fresh south-easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea. At 11.15 P.M. the...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — A new life-boat on PEAKE'S design has been recently placed at Hauxley by the National Life-boat Institution, in lieu of the one previously stationed there, which was found to be too heavy, and to draw too much...
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Choosing An Oak Crook for the Stem of a Life-Boat
The Institution's two timber-converters at work.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rewards for Saving Life from Shipwreck
of the most important features in the original organization of the NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—independently of the establishment of Life-boats by it—was to encourage laudable efforts by every available means to save life from shipwreck on...
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Review
Poor man’s heaven by Seth Lakeman Review by Rory Stamp
Seth Lakeman isn’t alone in being a successful modern musician inspired by classic rock and 1990s dance music, but few fuse such influences in the way he has on Poor...
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Marlborough
JANUARY 26TH - 30TH and FEBRUARY 5TH.
- FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
During these days the Fraserburgh life-boat performed a number of unusual services because of a very severe snow storm, which continued...
Orchis
Ramsgate, Kent.—At about 1.55 A.M.
on the 24th June, 1938, the watchman on the East Pier reported that a yacht south of the harbour was burning flares.
A light S.S.W. breeze was...