LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
By Invitation: Kirkwall's 70 Foot Clyde Class Lifeboat Visits the Faroe Islands
IT IS THE GREAT AMBITION of F0rOya Bjargingarfelag, the Faroese Lifesaving Society, to develop a lifeboat service as an extension to the coast rescue equipment companies it has already established at various strategic points round this...
Category: Articles
A Cheque for £5000 from the Association for Rescue at Sea (Afras) Towards the American/British Lifeboat Appeal Was Recently Presented By Kingman Brewster Uni
A cheque for £5,000 from the Association for Rescue at Sea (AFRAS) towards the American/British Lifeboat Appeal was recently presented by Kingman Brewster, United States Ambassador (I.) to Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston, chairman,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mrs. Ferris Tozer, Hon. Secretary of the Exeter Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
By the death of Mrs. Ferris Tozer on 7th October the Institution lost one of its oldest and most energetic honorary workers. The Honorary Secretary of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild at Exeter, she had been a Life-boat worker for...
Category: Obituaries
A Dinghy, Corsair, a Rowing Boat and the Folk Boat Alba
No. 3 Life-boat Area (North East England) BRIDLINGTON'S BUSY DAY ON 12th July the Bridlington, Yorkshire, life-boat William Henry and Mary King—she is a 37-foot Oakley—and the local inshore rescue boat had a busy...
Voyage of the Motor Life-Boat "Joseph Adlam" from Cowes to Blyth
By Commander E. S. CARVER, R.D., R.N.R., Inspector of Life-boats for the Eastern District.
WE left Cowes just before 7 A.M. of the 4th October. I had with me the Blyth Coxswain and three men, the Blyth Motor Mechanic, the...
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On her slipway at the Mumbles is 47ft Watson Pentland (Civil Service No 31) which in the television series becomes Ennal's Point lifeboat Samuel Grail. photograph by courtesy of "South Wales Evening Post'
On her slipway at The Mumbles is 47ft Watson Pentland (Civil Service No 31) which in the television series becomes Ennal's Point lifeboat Samuel Grail.
photograph by courtesy of "South Wales Evening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Smaller of the Two Norwegian Boats Ragni Berg Stood By a Dutch Yacht In Trouble Off Esbjerg on Her Passage from Norway Photograph By Courtesy of Dag Pike
The smaller of the two Norwegian boats, Ragni Berg, stood by a Dutch yacht in trouble off Esbjerg on her passage from Norway. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Dag Pike. - View image in PDF
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The American Steamer William H. Welsh, of Baltimore
FEBRUARY 26TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
The American steamer William H. Welsh, of Baltimore, had gone ashore and was totally wrecked, with loss of life, near Loch Ewe, in a north-north-east gale. Before the life-boat could...
In September Mr. Edward Heath, Leader of the Conservative Party, Went Out In a R.N.L.I. Inshore Rescue Boat from the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey, Glamorganshire
In September Mr. Edward Heath, leader of the Conservative Party, went out in a R.N.L.I, inshore rescue boat from the Outward Bound Sea School at Aberdovey, Glamorganshire. The man in the cap is Mr. Peter Gurnell, Outward Bound Sea School... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Super-Quality of Life-Boats. Some Examples from the Recent Gales
By Captain Howard F. I. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
IN an article with the above title which appeared in The Lifeboat for February, 1925, I pointed out the reasons why, in material and construction...
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