LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Modern Lifeboat Exhibition
SCIENCE MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON FEBRUARY 21-APRIL 21 OPEN: WEEKDAYS, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
SUNDAYS, 2.30 p.m.-6 p.m.
FOR TWO MONTHS in the spring of its 'Year of the Lifeboat' the RNLI is staging an...
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The Life-Boat and Its Work
Paper read by Sir JOHN CAHEBON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy-Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, before the Royal Society of Arts, on the 16th February, 1910. Colonel Sir FrrzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V Colonel Sir FrrzRoY...
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A 504
Designed by J. A. McLachlan the ragged chine inshore lifeboat was intended to have a greater offshore capability than the D class inflatable. A succesful boat (her helmsman winning a Bronze Medal in 1975) the class was eventually superseded... - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRK.—While a whole gale from W.N.W. was raging, accompanied by a very heavy sea and rain, on the night of the 5th January, 1902, signals of distress were observed from the schooners Emma Louise and Elizabeth Miller, both...
Category: Services
A Rubber Collapsible Boat
OCT. 18TH. - WHITBY, AND RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. The coastguard reported a vessel firing signals six miles north of Whitby.
A moderate N.E. wind was blowing with a choppy sea. At 7.45 P.M. the No. 1 motor life-boat was...
Sheringham's Salvation
Sheringham's Salvation Worldwide leader of the Salvation Army, General Eva Burrows, visited Sheringham on 29 September for the centenary celebrations of the Sheringham Corps, and one of her calls was at the local lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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The Silver Line, Little Lady, Victory Rose, Floral Queen, Enterprise II,Gem
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the llth of September, 1952, the weather was becoming steadily worse, with a strong freshening northerly wind and strong ebb-tide making the harbour entrance dangerous for small boats. It was decided to...
Book Reviews
The Story of the Land's End Lifeboats (D. Bradford Barton Ltd., Truro, 155.) is the second volume in the admirable series on Cornish life-boats being fompiled by Cyril Noall and Grahame Farr under the composite title Wreck md Rescue...
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Modern Motor Life-Boats. Modern Motor Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Modern Motor Life-boats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
By ]. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A. (Blackie & Sons, Ltd. 5s. net.) THE author of this book is the head of the famous Clyde firm of yacht...
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Surf Is a Way of Life on the North Cornwall Coast - Blue Peter Iv Is Seen (Below)
Surf is a way of life on the North Cornwall coast - Blue Peter IV is seen (below) launching on exercise through seas very much smaller than those encountered in the Vellumwinning service From the survivor's point of view… The RNLI's... - View image in PDF
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