LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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On His Retirement After 30 Years Service As Honorary Treasurer First at Exeter and Then Exmouth Leslie Aplin Was Presented With a Clock from Exmouth Branch By Hono
On his retirement after 30 years service as honorary treasurer, first at Exeter and then Exmouth, Leslie Aplin was presented with a clock from Exmouth branch by honorary secretary Len Smith (I.) and an inscribed shield by John Atterton (r.),... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. . Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view....
Category: Articles
Gerlinde
LAUNCHED IN MIST At i p.m. on 2yth May, 1964, the coastguard told the mechanic that a report had been received that a large vessel had gone aground west of the harbour entrance.
Visibility was very bad because of mist, it...
Aid
BLAKENEY.—During a gale from the northward, on the 21st February, the ketch Aid, of Hull, bound from Barton to London, was observed riding heavily at her anchors, 4 miles from Blakeney, with a signal of distress flying. The tide being out,...
A Martinet Aeroplane
MAY 28TH. - MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.
At 4.16 in the afternoon the naval officer at Workington informed the life-boat honorary secretary that a Martinet aeroplane was down in the sea north-west of...
Past and Present
25 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1970 At the RNLJ's Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards in 1970 the then Chairman, Admiral Woods, referred to the recent formation of the Yachtsman's Lifeboat Supporters Association -...
Category: Articles
A Book on the Life-Boats In the War
The story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939 to 1945 is told in "Storm on the Waters" by Mr. Charles Vinc«, publicity secretary of the Institution.
It will be published on December i6th by Messrs....
Category: Articles
The "Charterhouse" Life-Boat
IN 1909, one of the first of the Insti- tution's Motor Life-boats was stationed at Fishguard. She was a 40-feet Self- righting Life-boat with a 24 h.p. auxiliary engine, giving her a speed of seven knots.
There were...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S. Brilliant
Torbay, Devon.—On the night of the 30th January, 1939, the Berry Head coastguard reported that rockets had been seen about eight miles to the eastward.
A moderate easterly gale was blowing, with a heavy swell. At 8.55 P.M....