LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coxswain Swan's Broadcast Appeal. A Response of Over £750
A Response of over £750.
ON Sunday, 2nd March, through the kindness of the British Broadcasting Corporation, the Institution was allowed to make a three-minute appeal as " the week's good cause." This...
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Photograph By Courtesy of George E Gregory
Photograph by courtesy of George E. Gregory.. - View image in PDF
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No. 1305
MOTOR LAUNCH ON THE SCROBY SANDS Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—Shortly after three in the morning of the 10th of June, 1947, the coast- guard reported flares, and the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was...
A French Matinee In Aid of the Institution
IT is a far cry from the snows of Russia to tke sands of the Sahara, and as far a cry from the Sahara to the coasts of the British Isles. But experiments are now being made to see if a device originally designed for motor transport over the...
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In the Great Gale of November 23rd, 1938 (2)
The life-boat standing by while one keel-boat tows in another (Sec page 33.). - View image in PDF
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Moored Together In Newlyn Harbour: the Two 52Ft Aruns
Moored together in Newlyn Harbour: the two 52ft Aruns given to the Institution by David Robinson—Mabel Alice, Penlee lifeboat, and Charles Brown, which recently went on station at Buckle. photograph by courtesy of John Corin. - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Broadcasting. Appeals In Ireland and Wales
DURING the summer four Life-boat appeals have been broadcast in Ireland and Wales. On 30th May, just before Life-boat Day was held in Belfast, Sir Frederick Moneypenny, C.V.O., C.B.E., the City Chamberlain of Belfast and Private Secretary to...
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Value of the Self-Righting Principle In Life-Boats
IN the 19th Number of this Journal we replied to the various theoretical objections that had been advanced against the selfrighting principle, and demonstrated that the same means which were employed to produce that effect contributed to the...
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News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1938
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 31st May. The amount raised was £6,397, an increase of £1,074 on 1937.
Presentation 'by Mr. Kenneth Lindsay, M.P.,...
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