LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
News from the Branches
1st January to 31st March.
[Since September of last year the " News from the Branches " has been given in a more abbreviated form than before, but reference has been made to the work of many more Branches. To...
Category: Branches
An American Tribute.
On March 2nd, 1941, the "New Yovk Times" published a leading aiticlt on the work of the British Life-boat Service: "The R.N.L.I." it said, "has been called the noblest of England's charitable societies. Though...
Category: Articles
Mr Baxter Presents the Public Relations Awards at the London Boat
Mr Baxter presents the Public Relations awards at the London Boat Show to Mr Ray Warner (left) and Mr Tony Smith, representing 'Down Your Way'. - View image in PDF
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Category: Photographs
Rochfort
Shortly before midnight, on the 3rd April, in- formation reached the Coxswain of the Life-boat Eliza Avins, that a steamer was ashore on the west end of Plymouth Breakwater. The weather was fine, but it was considered advisable to send the...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt- are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Iba, minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a mtm heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
Category: Articles
Esmerelda
SCARBOROUGH.—On the 18th February, the fishing smack Esmerdlda, of Grimsby, was, owing to there being no wind and a very strong sea, driven helplessly towards the shore a little to the N. of Cay ton Bay.
Her signal of...
A Broadcast from Broughty Ferry
AT the beginning of June a launch of the motor life-boat at Broughty Ferry, Dundee, was successfully broadcast.
The broadcaster first discussed the work of the station with Mr. Hunter, the honorary secretary, and described...
Category: Articles
Douglas Lifeboat Sir William Hillary
The Third Coxswain of the by now soap-free Douglas lifeboat Sir William Hillary is put aboard Martlet fo connect the tow.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
FIGURES for the first nine months of the year show remarkable increases in the numbers of services carried out by life-saving vessels. All three categories of life-saving vessel with which the Institution is concerned, its lifeboats, its own...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (58)
APRIL 11TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. A British bomber was reported to have come down in the sea, but nothing was found, and while the life-boat was searching the news came that the bomber had crashed 45 miles away. - Rewards, £13 6s. 6d..<...