LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 4.—The 35-Feet 6 Inches Self-righting Type
UNTIL 1921 all the Institution's motor life-boats were of a weight which made it necessary that they should either lie afloat or be launched down a slip-way.
In that year, the first boat was sta- tioned at Eastbourne of...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824. — SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Her most Gracious Majesty the...
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Fundraising Region Changes
As from 1 September 1993 the Central England and Southern fundraising regions ceased to exist, and their respective Regional Offices closed. The branches previously in those regions have been transferred to other regions as listed below.<...
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Susan Ashley
One of a class of four 41ft lifeboats built for slipway launching.
Watson lifeboats take their class name from their designers, G.L. Watson and Co who were the RNLI's consultant naval architects for many years. Susan... - View image in PDF
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A Dinghy
Quick response ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1983, Alexander Strutt, motor mechanic of Kirkwall's 70ft Clyde lifeboat, saw a single-handed dinghy capsize. Although her helmsman could right his boat, he could not keep her upright; a southerly near...
Britannia, of North Shields
On the night of the 12th January the barque Britannia, of North Shields, bound from Mauritius to Greenock, got on shore, in moderate weather, on the north side of Port Logan Bay; the crew saving them- selves by climbing over the rocks at low...
English Rose III
Galway Bay - At 4.15 p.m. on 3rd September, 1966, a North Aran lighthouse- keeper informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat with two occupants had been sighted about one hundred and fifty yards off the island on which the lighthouse...
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Swimmer saved by lifeboat crew A short but dramatic rescue in which three members of Hastings lifeboat station (one of them the coxswain of the station's Mersey class lifeboat) went into the water to save a young man in danger of being...
Jessie
St. AGNES, SCILLY.—While a strong breeze from the E.S.E. was blowing on the 28th February, the smack Jessie, of Plymouth, which had lost her main-boom, was seen running into a dangerous position and the Life-boat James and Caroline was...
White Heather
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—On the afternoon of the 31st October the owner of a motor yacht which was anchored east of Yarmouth pier hired two men in the motor launch White Heather to put him on board his yacht.
A strong north...