LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Your shout
You receive a letter from the RNLI, you open it and see ‘Invitation to attend a Special Visitor Day in Poole’. What should you do? Cancel, postpone or decline any other event on that same date! Why? So that you can experience a truly...
Category: Articles
Dixie
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—9th October, 1938. The Norwegian steamer Dixie was in trouble through the failure of her engine off the Antrim coast, but a breakdown in communications prevented the news reaching the Donaghadee life-boat station....
RNLI plan
The RNLI plan 2010–14 is now available to view online, at rnli.org.uk/fiveyearplan.
The plan sets out clearly how the RNLI intends to carry on its proud tradition while addressing potentially difficult times ahead. See...
Category: Articles
Plastic Collecting Boxes Are to Be Gradually Introduced Experimentally
Plastic collecting boxes are to be gradually introduced experimentally by the R.N.L.I. Here the box, orange in colour, is being shown off. Another box of the same shape, yellow in colour, has been ordered for experimental use as the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Problem of Designing Life-Boats. Self-Righting Life-Boats Or Life-Boats Which Cannot Self-Right
By Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R.
Chief Inspector of Life-boats WHENEVER a life-boat of the type which cannot right herself is capsized the same questions are asked. "Why cannot all life-boats right...
Category: Articles
Cape Coast
Twenty rescued CAPE COAST, a 2,650 ton Panamanian cargo vessel, broadcast on Channel 16 VHP at 0327 on Wednesday January 10 that she was in distress and taking water in her engine room; she was 2.2 miles from Nab Tower on a bearing of...
Call to Action
Lifeboat crew members are renowned for mostly being volunteers and they are called to action from their ‘day job’ by pager alert (see page 14). In contrast, most RNLI lifeguards are paid (usually through local authority funding) as, when...
Category: Articles
New Ways of Raising Money
Collecting house flags of various shipping lines is the hobby of Mr. C. M. Pope, who lives near Sherborne in Dorset. For each flag received he sends a contribution to the R.N.L.I., this "consideration money" amounting to an average...
Category: Donations
Rescue from Trawler Aground Near Eilmore
About 10.45 on the night of Thursday, the 19th of December, 1957, the lights of a vessel passing between the two Saltee islands off the Wexford coast were seen from Kilmore Quay.
It was a wild night, and as the coast is a...
Category: Services
How the Women Launched the Life-Boat. (From the Toilers of the Deep.)
THE little cliff-side village In sleepy stillness lay, When the fishers' boats, at daybreak, Set sail from Bunswick Bay.
" God keep our sons and husbands, And bring them safely home I " Was the prayer that...
Category: Poetry