LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Brighton IRB Being Launched In a Choppy Sea
The Brighton IRB being launched in a choppy sea. During the first six months of this year IRBs were launched 225 times compared with 112 for the same period last year.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sailors' Homes
Among the many movements to which the philanthropic spirit of the age has given birth, few are entitled to a larger share of public sympathy and support than such as have for their object the well-being and im- provement of those classes...
Category: Articles
On Board the Broughty Ferry Motor Life-Boat
(Coxswain James Coull and Lieut.-Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R., Northern District Inspector.) The two boats travelled together from Cowes to Dundee in May, a distance of 503 miles, and the Aith life-boat then had 295 miles more to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Eva
At 1.45 P.M. on the 13th February signals of distress were observed from the cutter Eva, of Liverpool, at anchor in a dangerous part of Fishguard Bay: she was dragging her anchors and the three men on board feared she might run ashore. It...
The Steel-Hulled 48-Foot 6-Inch Oakley Mark III Life-Boat Which Is Now at Rosslare Harbour County Wexford the RNLI Is Fully Satisfied That Steel Hulls Are In Every Way As
The steel-hulled 48-foot 6-inch Oakley Mark III life-boat which is now at Ross- Lire Harbour, County Wexford. The R.N.L.I, is fully satisfied that steel hulls are in every way as satisfactory as wooden hulls, and at present nine steel... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Christmas Cards and Calendars
THIS year the Institution will for the first time have a choice of two Christ- mas cards for sale, in addition to pocket calendars.
One card is a reproduction of a painting by David Cobb, R.O.I., S.M.A., which depicts the...
Category: Advertisement
The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster's Appeal for the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received a personal letter from His Eminence the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster (the Most Rev. Arthur Hinsley, D .D.), commending to Catholics the appeal of the life-boat service. It is dated 25th June, 1938.
Category: Correspondence
Notes of the Quarter
THE remarkable variety of the services which life-boat crews are called upon to perform today is clearly shown in the accounts received from the stations during the spring and early summer of this year and recorded in these...
Category: Articles
Commander S. W. F. Bennetts, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N.
Commander S. W. F. Bennetts, D.S.O., D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of life- boats, died suddenly of a heart attack at his home in Rottingdean on 1st of April, 1961. He joined the Institution as District Inspector (General) in 1949 and in...
Category: Obituaries
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