LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part II: on the Stocks
TRADITIONALLY, when building a boat in wood, the first operation is the laying down of the keel from which is built up a framework of stem, transom, bulkheads and other transverse and longitudinal members. When building a small boat in steel...
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Italian Government's Thanks. Services By the Torbay and Hope Cove Life-Boats
ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...
Category: Services
Mr Arthur Pearcy, of Llanbedr, North Wales, visited America
Mr Arthur Pearcy, of Llanbedr, North Wales, visited A merica and left RNLI tea towels at United States Coast Guard bases. Here one of the tea towels is being displayed at the San Francisco base. They were purchased by Mr Pearcy from the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seafarers Service
Seven Dorset lifeboatmen, from Poole, Swanage and We y mouth, attended the annual national service for seafarers in St Paul's Cathedral on October 24, when, for the first time, the RNLI flag was carried up the aisle; the flag was carried...
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May Queen
Courdon, Kincardinesbire. — In the afternoon of the 18th November, 1938, a sudden south gale sprang up, with a rough sea and heavy rain. A boat which came in reported that the small local fishing yawl May Queen, with a crew of three, was...
The Motor Boats Peggy II and Sheila
NOVEMBER 18TH . - FILEY, YORK-SHIRE During the afternoon two local motor boats were reported overdue, and at 5 P.M. the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched to search for them . A light westerly wind was blowing, with a moderate swell....
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors.
HARRIET, LADY FINDLAY, D.B.E., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Institution in recognition of her valued services as President of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild of the Edinburgh,...
Category: Awards
Deputy Second Coxswain David Cox
Deputy Second Coxswain David Cox. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs