LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1954. 120 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched 48 times and rescued 71 lives.
ESCORT FOR FLAMBOROUGH BOAT Flamborough, Yorkshire.—During the afternoon of the 6th of January. 1954, a fishing coble was still at sea in...
Category: Services
A Happy 'Lifeboat' Crew! May Lands Infants' Class 6 (4% to Five Years) Adopted the Rnli As Their Project for a Term They Organised a Raffle a Fair a Sponsored Walk Roun
A happy 'lifeboat' crew! May lands Infants' class 6 (4% to five years) adopted the RNLI as their project for a term. They organised a raffle, a fair, a sponsored walk round the playground and even composed a song. £160 was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Co-Operation Keynote
The 15th International Lifeboat Conference took place at La Coruna, Spain in June this year. The RNLI was represented and, here, Public Relations Officer EDWARD WAKE-WALKER reports on the continuing dialogue between lifeboat societies from...
Category: Meetings
Teesmouth September 14 1986:
Teesmouth, September 14, 1986: Tees Dock quay space is normally full of steel ready for export. This particular Sunday, however, saw a small oasis of colour appear as the site was made ready for the naming ceremony of Teesmouth's 47ft... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Statement of the Several Life-Boats Belonging to Or In Connection With the National Life-Boat Institution
STATION. Length. Breadth. No. of Oars. When Stationed or Named. No. ENGLAND. Ft. In. Ft. in. NORTHUMBERLAND BKRWICK-OX-TWKED - - - 33 - 8 - 10 1864 1 HOLY ISLASD — No. 1 - — — 34 - 8 ...
Category: Articles
Major Osman Gabriel Having the Controls of the Rother Class Lifeboat He Has Presented to the RNLI Explained to Him at the Boat Show With Him Are (Left) Coxswain/Me
Major Osman Gabriel having the controls of the Rother class lifeboat he has presented to the R.N.L.I. explained to him at the Boat Show. With him are (left) Coxswain/Mechanic William Dent and Mr. Evan Owens, Moelfre's retired motor... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Underwater Shape of the Tyne Class Hull Is Well Illustrated During a Capsize Trial Note the Soft Round Bilges Deep Fine Bow and the Propellers Recessed Into Shallow
The underwater shape of the Tyne class hull is well illustrated during a capsize trial. Note the soft, round bilges, deep, fine bow and the propellers recessed into shallow tunnels and protected by long skegs.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cas-Jel
Margate, Kent.—At 12.26 on the after- noon of the 7th of June, 1954, the coastguard reported that a small motor boat, with a crew of three, had broken down about two miles off Foreness. At 12.35 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil Service No...
Clan Maclver
SICK MAN At 1.30 p.m. on nth March, 1966, the coxswain received a telephone call from a doctor that the life-boat Solomon Browne was needed to bring a sick man off the motor vessel Clan Maclver. At 3.30 the life-boat was launched in a strong...
Eleven Years on a Look at the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Some of Those Who Know Her Well
THE ATLANTIC 21 rigid inflatable has proved one of the most successful of the Institution's modern lifeboats and 30 are now on station. With an overall length of 22ft 9in, a rigid GRP hull and inflatable neoprene tube 'bulwarks',...
Category: Articles