LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, 13th day of March, 1883, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., President of...
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Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, once again attended the annual general meet- ing of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 2nd April, 1963. The meeting was an...
Category: Meetings
Life-Saving on the Shannon continued from page 6
An earlier operation involving both launches was in I960 when an Alitalia DC-7C crashed seconds after take-oft" from Shannon Airport with 52 people aboard. It transpired that the aircraft failed to gain altitude after lifting off the...
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Special Gifts to the Royal National Life-boat Institution for the Purchase of the following Life-boats
Special Gifts for the Pwehase of the following Life-boats ;- Hornsea, Yorkshire.
Skerries, Co. .Dublin .
Aberystwyth. .
Walmer Seaton Carew . . .
Jfraserburgh . . . .<...
Category: Donations
At This Year's International Boat Show In London One of the R.N.L.I.'s New Mclachlan Rescue Craft
At this yeefr's International Boat Show in London one of the R.N.L.I.'s new McLachlan rescue craft with a G.R.P. hull was shown for the first time. Late last year it was announced that for the first time ever the R. N.L.I, had placed... - View image in PDF
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On Service In a Motor Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 124 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 49 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November, 30th, 1934 - 63,862 On Service in a Motor Life-boat.1 By A. E. JOLLY, Motor...
Category: Services
Note In Background Crane Which Will Capsize the Rather for Her Righting Trial and on Her Stem Dial to Indicate Angle of Heel When Engine Shut-Down Switch Operates
Note in background crane which will capsize the Rather for her righting trial and, on her stem, dial to indicate angle of heel when engine shut-down switch operates.. - View image in PDF
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The Need for Fully Protected Propellers and Rudders Is Obvious In This Photograph of Selsey's Tyne Class Lifeboat Leaving Her Slipway Note the Deep Skeg Just Visible on Th
The need for fully protected propellers and rudders is obvious in this photograph of Selsey's Tyne class lifeboat leaving her slipway. Note the deep skeg just visible on the port side.. - View image in PDF
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The Second Fore and Aft Skin Has Been Laid and the First Strake of the Third Skin Is Fitted Into Place This Third Skin Is Laid on the Opposite Diagonal to the First Skin
The second, fore and aft, skin has been laid, and the first strake of the third skin is fitted into place. This third skin is laid on the opposite diagonal to the first skin.. - View image in PDF
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COLD REALITY
Lifeboat crews will always be ready to rescue when the call for help comes in. But with commercial fishing one of the most dangerous peacetime occupations, how can the RNLI help our fishermen to improve their chances before help arrives?<...
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