LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Queen of Kent
Ramsgate, Kent.—During the night of the 1st August, 1938, the pleasure steamer Queen of Kent, of Rochester, returning to Ramsgate Harbour from a trip, with 347 persons on board, ran aground on the Brake Sands. A gentle N.E. breeze was...
Gold for the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received an anony- mous parcel containing twenty-nine gold sovereigns and twenty-four half- sovereigns, packed in cotton wool, many of them with Queen Victoria's head"..
Category: Donations
In This Issue
Feature: Heart of the matter 2 The RNLI's AGM and presentation of awards Feature: Train one, save many 4 What does it take to become a crew member? Feature: Launching saves lives 7 Safe and speedy launches Lifeboats and lifeguards in...
Category: Contents
The Name's Bond...
When you think of Bond, most of you will think of James Bond - 007 with shaken, not stirred, vodka-martini cocktails. But the RNLI's real Bond is Peter Bond, Morecarnbe's D class lifeboat. Instead of a car with machine guns hidden... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Steinstad
FEBRUARY 20TH. - ARRANMORE, CO. DONEGAL. Survivors of the S.S. Steinstad, of Oslo, which had been torpedoed on the 16th February, had reached land in one of the ship’s boats, and reported that another boat was missing, but the life-boat’s...
New Committee of Management Members
MR. N. R. BARRETT, M.A., M.B., M.Chir., F.R.C.S., Air Marshal Sir Anthony Selway, K.C.B., D.F.C., and Lieut.-Commander Jeremy Tetley, R.N.R., have been co-opted members of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I.
Mr....
Category: Committee
Fig 5: (Right) Each End of the Three Securing Straps Are Attached to Brackets Bolted to Cabin Sides With Stainless Steel Retaining Pins Although Brackets Make Allowance F
Fig. 5: (Right) Each end of the three securing straps are attached to brackets, bolted to cabin sides, with stainless steel retaining pins.
Although brackets make allowance for six possible positions, it is normal to use... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Hattie B, of Liverpool
On the 10th Feb- ruary the Courtinacsherry Life-boat, the City of Dublin, rendered assistance to the brigantine Hattie B, of Liverpool, which had got disabled in a gale of wind, and been driven on the "Black Tom" Rock in...
Thousands of People Attended Hoylake
Thousands of people attended Hoylake open day last August which had as its peak of entertainment a display by the RAF's world famous Red Arrows, seen here just as they pass over Hovlake lifeboat. Royal Marines dropped by parachute from a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tania of Rochester
Wicklow - At 8.25 a.m. on 29th July, 1967, it was learnt that a yacht was in distress 15 miles southeast of Wicklow. A rope had fouled her propeller. The life-boat J. W. Archer was launched at 8.40 in a strong south easterly wind and a rough...