LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dinghies
Mass Capsize AT 3.11 p.m. on May 28 it was learnt that dinghies from the Shoreham, Sussex, yacht club were capsizing and theyacht club rescue craft did not seem able to cope with them, in particular one dinghy 100 yards off the harbour. The...
Lord Kitchener Named at Walmer
Brisk winds did not spoil the sunshine in Walmer on 11 May when 200 guests attended the naming of the station's new D class lifeboat.
Len Stephens, honorary treasurer of the Welling branch handed the lifeboat over to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service
The Heroic Story of the Life-boat Service A book in the series " Pride of Britain" entitled The Heroic Story of the Life-Boat Service, published by Pitkin Pictorials Ltd., tells the story of the Life-boat Service from the...
Category: Advertisement
Lifeboats from Some of the Participating Nations Rafted Up In the Oslo Fiord
Lifeboats from some of the participating nations rafted up in the Oslo fiord. The RNLI's Arun class Duke olAtholl is second from the left, and on the extreme right is one of the classic Norwegian Colin Archer-designed sailing lifeboats -... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Trawler (2)
DE C E M B E R 1 2 T H . - ANSTRUTHER, FIFESHIRE. A trawler had gone aground near Fifeness, but did not need the life-boat, as a tug came to tow her off. - Rewards, £9 4s..
Functional Clothing
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Unsung heroes: Vincent Rafter
Vincent was part of the team that set up Lough Ree Lifeboat Station in 2012 – and his involvement with the RNLI goes back even further
Vincent was part of the team that set up Lough Ree Lifeboat Station in 2012 – and his...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
WE learn from the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued' that on the 30th of June, 1886, there were 211 stations, 165 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the La,kes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the...
Category: Articles
Rnli News
Duke of Kent to present awards The Institution's President, His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, will address the meeting of the annual presentation of awards ceremony at the Royal Festival Hall in May. He will also present bravery...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE first number of THE LIFE-BOAT appeared in March, 1852. The first editorial began: 'If there be one subject more than another that might be expected to com- mand the attention and enlist the sympathy of a maritime country like Great...
Category: Articles