LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part 1
KNOWLEDGE OF SHIPS AND THE SEA, of design and engineering brought to bear, with imagination, on the problems posed in the reconciling of requirements with limitations; calculations; drawings —of profile, section and plan—building up on flat...
Category: Articles
RNLI FAMILY: Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Tying the knot
Congratulations to Bundoran Crew Members Laura McNulty and Richard Gillespie, who got married in July. Lifeboating must be in their blood, because both Laura and Richard have family on the crew. Laura’s dad,...
Category: Articles
Netstationers
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Category: Advertisement
Statistics to believe in
As the Lifeboat went to print, RNLI rescue data for 2008 were announced.
Every one of the charity’s lifeboat stations and lifeguard units routinely reports its operational activities to Headquarters, where the Service...
Category: Articles
"Literature of the Life-Boat"
IN October, 1936, Literature of the Life-boat, by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president-of the Institution, appeared as a supplement to; The Life-boat, and. a second part appeared a year later. In these two supplements Sir...
Category: Articles
Pensions for Gold Medallists
AT their meeting last May the committee of management decided that officers and members of life-boat crews who are awarded the Institution's gold medal, the highest award which it can make for gallantry in saving life, may, like those...
Category: Committee
Other Inaugural Ceremonies
Hythe, Rcsslare Harbour, Berwick-on-Tweed, St. Mary's, Campbeltown and TroonBESIDES the four Inaugural Ceremonies, already described, in which members of the Royal Family took part, five Ceremonies of new Motor Life-boats have been held...
Category: Inaugurations
Dunira
A service characterised by conspicuous bravery was performed by this Life-boat on the 15th December. At about 8.10 P.M.
a vessel was observed burning flares about five miles due west of Port Patrick, and apparently drifting...
Altair
DONNA NOOK, LINCOLNSHIRE. — The Life-boat Rtehqrd was launched at 4.30 A.M., on the 19th January, a telephonemessage having been received from Saltfleet reporting a vessel in distress. On reaching the spot it was ascertained that a steamer...
Mavoureen and Random Harvest
Troon, Ayrshire. —At 11.50 on the night of the 6th of January, 1949, the Portpatrick coastguard telephoned that the Ayr coastguard had reported two fishing boats aground to the south of Ayr, and the life-boat Sir David Rich- mond of Glasgow...