LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cdr P Fletcher Rn Rtd,
Cdr P Fletcher RN Rtd, founder member, box secretary and former chairman of Wargrave branch. He was awarded a certificate of thanks in 1985..
Category: Obituaries
Cornish Open-Air Service
AN open-air service was held in Newlyn Harbour on the 26th of September, 1954. The Penlee life-boat W. & S.
was tied up in the harbour and it was from the deck of the life-boat that the Hon. Greville Howard, M.P., a...
Category: Articles
Our Shoreline Volunteer Enrolment Team Which Had Such a Fine Record at the London International Boat Show In January Was Back at Earls Court In March Hard at Wor
Our Shoreline volunteer enrolment team which had such a fine record at the London International Boat Show in January was back at Earls Court in March hard at work throughout the Ideal Home Exhibition.
Three hundred new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Jojephil
At 8.20 p.m. on 2oth July, 1967, a message was received that distress signals had been observed at a position four miles north of Moelfre. The IRB was launched to investigate a report of a cabin cruiser in difficulties. On reaching the...
Launching Life-Boats Off Slipways
Results of Tests with regard to Depth of Water, Speed of Launching and Construction.
By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.FOR many years past the practice of launching Life-boats off...
Category: Articles
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain John A. Fox, of the Shoreham Harbour, Sussex, life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant. A member of the local crew since 1946, he was Second Coxswain from November, 1963, to April last year when he was promoted. Since 1946 Shoreham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
All In a Day's Work
All in a day's work Following a 20 hour search at sea for a missing Polperro fisherman on Sunday, 8 January 2000, some of the Fowey lifeboat crew headed straight off to London for the unveiling of a portrait of themselves and their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Drawings of the Life-Boats and Life-Boat Carriages Adopted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FIVE years' experience by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION of the new class of life-boats, designed by JAMES PEAKE, Esq., of Her Majesty's Dock-yard, Woolwich, and elicited by the prize of 100 guineas given by His Grace the Duke of...
Category: Articles