LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Celebration for Some of the Swimmers Who Successfully Completed a Relay Swim Across the Solent from Ryde to Southsea Castle It Took the Party of Children and Adults Two Hours and Six Minut
A celebration for some of the swimmers who successfully completed a relay swim across the Solent from Ryde to Southsea Castle. It took the party of children and adults two hours and six minutes to swim the five miles, and they raised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Six of the Seven Life-Boatmen Who Were Present at the Centenary Thanksgiving Service
From left to right:—ex-Coxswain Holbrook, of Bembridge, hie of Wight; ex-Coxswain Robert Burton, of Berwick-on-Tweed i Second-Coxswain George Newman, of Worthing Coxswain Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw; Coxswain Daniel Murphy, of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cover Picture
COVER PICTURE by Dowland Studios Lifeboat weather... A shaft of sunlight highlights the new Arun The Queen Mother during trials on a stormy day in January 1989. The lifeboat is to be stationed atThurso, and was due to sail there in March... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Dagenite Batteries
LIFEBOATS DEMAND THE DEPENDABILITY OF DACENITE So does your car. Make sure you choose a Dagenite Easifil-it means what it says. Dagenite Batteries are used extensively by the R.N.L.I.
They don't take chances..
Category: Advertisement
May
Launches 41 Lives rescued 27
MAY 1ST. - NEWCASTLE, CLOUGHEY, AND DONAGHADEE, CO. DOWN. In the darkness of the early morning the American steamer Georgetown Victory, of Baltimore, ran ashore at Killard Point, Co. Down,...
Category: Services
September (1)
HOYLAKE, CHESHIRE. On the afternoon of the 30th June, 1941, two women with two small children were cut off by the rising tidebetween the baths and wooden jetty at Hoylake. The weather was fine and the sea calm. Their plight was seen from the...
Category: Services
Naming Ceremony at Gourdon
THE naming ceremony of the motor life-boat for Gourdon, Kin- cardineshire, took place on 23rd May.
The life-boat is a Scottish gift, for it has been built out of a legacy from the late Mrs. Margaret H. Dawson, of Bridge of...
Category: Inaugurations
Coxswain John Dare Read the Lesson at the Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication
Coxswain John Dare read the lesson at the service of thanksgiving and dedication.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gordon Stokes Chairman of Burton-On-Trent Branch Recently Received a Cheque for £410 from John Tester of Burton Diving Club the Money Had Been Collected Fro
Gordon Stokes, chairman of Burton-on-Trent branch, recently received a cheque for £410 from John Tester of Burton Diving Club.
The money had been collected from a crowd watching the diving club's annual raft race... - View image in PDF
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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