LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Foresters and the Life-Boat Institution
THAT great friendly society, the Ancient Order of Foresters, has for a long time been one of the most gener- ous supporters of the Institution.
Foresters' orders are of great anti- quity and their origin cannot now be...
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H.R.H. Princess Marina— the Institution's President
IN the last issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, it was reported that Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, had now completed 25 years as President of the Royal National Life-boat Institution. The Princess succeeded the late Duke of Kent, who had been the...
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The Line-Throwing Gun. By Captain Howard F. J. Rowley, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-Boats
THE problem of establishing communi- cation between the Life-boat and the Lifevessel in distress has for many years occupied the attention of the technical officers of the Institution. Up to the present the only device has been the Cane...
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Tatra
Stromness, Orkneys.—At 1.5 in the afternoon, on the 18th of January, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard tele- phoned that the Wick radio station had reported the motor ship Tatra of Tonsberg, broken down and in distress, twenty-three miles...
Fig 5: New Sacrificial Anodes Are Fitted to Afloat Boats Each Year the Wastage Caused By Electrolytic Action Can Be Seen By Comparing New Anode With Old One Just Taken O
Fig. 3: Buoyancy air cases, each shaped to fit and marked with its position, are taken out when opening up the hull for examination at partial and complete survey . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, Are Often Attracted to This Large R.N.L.I. Codfish Collecting Box Which Stands at the Approach to the Beach. Mr. W. E. Russell Is the Honorary Volunt
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, are often attracted to this large R.N.L.I. codfish collecting box which stands at the approach to the beach. Mr.
W. E. Russell is the honorary volunteer emptier of this... - View image in PDF
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Ijmuiden - Cromer Strong Links Are Being Forged Between Cromer Lifeboat Station on One Side of the North Sea and the Netherlands Lifeboat Station at Ijmuiden on the Other Over the Weekend Of
Ijmuiden - Cromer Strong links are being forged between Cromer lifeboat station on one side of the North Sea and the Netherlands lifeboat station at Ijmuiden on the other. Over the weekend of May 8 to 11, Ijmuiden lifeboat Johanna Louisa... - View image in PDF
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The End of H.M.S. Warspite. A Dangerous Service By Penlee
AT the end of April the famous battleship Warspite, which was built over thirty years ago. and served with great distinction in two wars in all parts of the world, was being towed from Portsmouth by two tugs to a shipbreaker's yard on...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Photographs In Birmingham
THE exhibition of life-boat photographs which was shown last year in London and Edinburgh was shown in Birming- ham from February 12th to 20th of this year, through the kindness of Messrs. Lewis's, Ltd., of Liverpool, Manchester and...
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