LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Gardens of Sheffield Park
IN 1950, for the second year, the famous gardens of Sheffield Park, Sussex, were opened to the public on behalf of the Life-boat Service, by the kindness of their owners, Captain and Mrs. A. Gran- ville Soames. They were open for seven...
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The Development of the Lifeboat By Eric Middleton
THE EVER INCREASING SPEED of Scientific and technological advance over recent years has naturally made itself felt in the design, construction and equipment of lifeboats throughout the world. So rapid have these changes been in the second...
Category: Articles
Davenport
May Meeting.
Eastbourne, Sussex.—On the morning of the 27th February a man reported that he had seen a vessel showing flares. She was the barge Davenport, of Ipswich, bound with a crew of three, and cargo of firebricks,...
H.M. Trawler Kingston Cairngorm
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BEMBRIDGE JANUARY 29TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT During the afternoon an easterly blizzard was raging at Bembridge in the Isle of Wight.
The wind had been blowing hard for several days and a very...
Or a Trestle Table at An Open Air Event at Swanage (Below), RNLI
a trestle table at an open air event at Swanage (below), RNLI (Sales/ services them all. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Give a little whistle
25 November: When Broughty Ferry lifeboat was unable to locate a jet-skier who had called for help just after lunchtime, a major search and rescue operation was mounted, involving an RAF rescue helicopter and...
Category: Articles
Italian Government's Thanks. Services By the Torbay and Hope Cove Life-Boats
ON the night of February 15th of last year an Italian steamer, the Liberta, of Genoa, on her way to Rotterdam, went ashore among the rocks at Bolt Head near Salcombe in Devon. Shortly after midnight the news of the wreck was received at the...
Category: Services
Contents
Notes of the Quarter 183 Contents Lifeboat Services 185 Annaal General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 192 N limber 476 The naming of the 52ft Arun relief lifeboat Sir Max Aitken 197 Back in Business—Hunstanton, closed 1931: re-opened...
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State-Maintained Life-Boats In Norway
IN nine of the thirteen foreign countries ! which have National Life-boat Services, the Service is voluntarily maintained ! like our own, though, in some cases, with I grants-in-aid from the State. In the remaining five it is...
Category: Articles
Volvo
WITHENOUGHOFTHESE WECAN BUILD UPAFLOAT AND YOU COULD WIN ANEW VOLVO Volvo and the RNLI have, over the past eight years, together raised over £4 million to help save lives at sea.
To date, three lifeboats have been...
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