LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
One of the Last Naming Ceremonies Attended By Princess Marina Duchess of Kent
One of the last naming ceremonies attended by Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, was at Dover when the Faithful Forester was commissioned. Here Princess Marina comes ashore after inspecting the Dover boat on 26th July, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gem of the Ocean (1)
UPGANG AND WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.— During the afternoon of the 15th Feb- ruary the northerly wind freshened, bringing up a heavy sea, and at about 3.30 P.M. a telephone message from Runswick reported that a small vessel was driving southward in...
Northerly Storm—Spring Tides: a Log of the Night of January 11 and 12 1978 By Michael Pennell
On the night of January 11 and 12, 1978, storm force winds blowing right down the North Sea coinciding with some of the highest tides of the winter resulted in severe flooding and damage down the East Coast of England and in the Thames...
Category: Articles
The Light Type of Motor Life-Boat. Problems of the Three Capsizes
By LiEUT.-CoMMANDER P. E. VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
THEEE motor life-boats have capsized in the space of fifteen months. In each capsize lives were lost.
The St. Ives life-boat...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WALMER, KENT.—On the 1st October, during hazy weather, the barquentine Juno, of Riga, stranded on the South Goodwin Sands, whilst bound from Portsmouth to Sunderland. Informa- tion reached the Coxswain of the Life- boat about 9 A.M., and...
Category: Services
Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan Was Awarded the Gold Silver and Bronze Medals for Gallantry for Services By Humber Lifeboat In Some of the Worst Storms of Th
Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan was awarded the gold, silver and bronze medals for gallantry for services by Humber lifeboat in some of the worst storms of the past winter. These services were to Revi, Diana V and Savinesti respectively... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kapok Life-Belts. Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade
Report of the Departmental Committee of the Board of Trade.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
THE Court of Inquiry held by the Board of Trade into the wreck of the Rye Harbour...
Category: Articles
Sir William Hillary, Founder of the Institution
WHEN, in March, 1920, I paid my first visit to the Isle of Man, I did so for a double reason. I wanted to see all the Isle of Man Stations and to have the advantage of meeting the Honorary Secretaries and Committees. But the main object in...
Category: Articles
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
Category: Articles