LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Essay Competition In the Potteries
THIS year the Potteries were again very successful in the life-boat essay competition for elementary schools.
They won five prizes in the inter-school competition in the Midlands. One of these five prizes was presented by...
Category: Articles
An Open Fishing Boat
Six fishermen saved by crew member in open fishing boatEamonn O'Leary, a member of Dun Laoghaire's All-weather lifeboat crew, has been awarded the Institution's Thanks inscribed on Vellum for a rescue which he carried out...
Pensions, Etc. For Deserving Coxswains, Bowmen and Signalmen of Long Service
WITH the view if still farther recognising long, faithful and good service in the Life-boat cause, the Committee of Management of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION introduced on the 1st January 1 last a pension and gratuity scheme,...
Category: Articles
From the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales
IN March Mr. N. V. Wade, the honorary treasurer of the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales, wrote to the Institution to say that there were Shiplovers' Societies not only in London and Bristol, but in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide...
Category: Correspondence
A Life-Boat Rescue
"KEEP a sharp look-out, lads," Was our coxswain's warning cry, As he scanned the horizon seawards, Where breakers were rolling" high.
" It's a wild night, I fear, lads; We'll have stiff work...
Category: Poetry
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
An Inflated Rubber Tyre
Life-boat 70-001 off The Mumbles Glamorganshire - At 7.21 p.m. on 2nd July, 1966, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a man had been carried through Inner Sound by the tide. The life-boat Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35)...
Notes of the Quarter
ONCE again figures show that life-boats have been called out on service more often in one particular month than in the corresponding month in any year, either in peace or war, since the Royal National Life-boat Institution was founded in...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Calendars and Christmas Card
THEE.E will again be two life-boat calendars ready for Christmas, one for hanging and the other for the pocket or handbag, and this year the Institution will also issue a Christmas card, the first since 1941.
The hanging...
Category: Advertisement
Hover history
The one occasion on which the Vancouver hovercraft was seriously damaged happened during a search along the shore. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs