LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (54)
JUNE 10TH. - PORTHDINLLAEN, CAERNARVONSHIRE. An Anson aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the crew were drowned before the life-boat and a motor launch could reach the spot. - Rewards, £7 13s. 6d.
News from the Branches. 1st February to 30th April, 1935
1st February to 30th April, 1935.
Greater London.
ACTON AND CHISWICK.—Annual meet- ing on 29th April, the Mayoress of Acton, president, in the chair. Speakers : The Mayor and the district organizing...
Category: Branches
Listings
Naming ceremoniesAlec and Christina Dykes atTorbay More than 350 guests attended the ceremony for Devon's first Severn class lifeboat. The lifeboat was received on behalf of the RNLI by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE RD and named by Torbay...
Category: Articles
Fig 4
Fig 4 (below): Deep bilge keels, port and starboard, have now completed the protective tunnels for the propellers. - View image in PDF
'A' brackets and stern tubes, ready to take the propeller shafts, are fitted.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part II—Lofting and Laying Down the Keel
THE SCENE OF ACTION now moves from the design office to the boatyard (William Osborne Ltd, Littlehampton) which will have been sent the lines plan of the boat (illustrated at very small scale at the foot of this page). It is the lines plan...
Category: Articles
Barmouth's Life-Boat Returning from a Service to the M.V. Welsh Girl on 2nd June, 1963. the Town's Life-Boat Service Is Now Well on the Way to Being Self-Supporting.
Barmouth's life-boat returning from a service to the m.v. Welsh Girl on 2nd June, 1963. The town's life-boat service is now well on the way to being self-supporting.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Angry State of the Sea at the Time Is Well Illustrated In This Striking Aerial Picture of the Wreck of the M.V. Anzio I off the Lincolnshire Coast on 3rd April, 1966
The angry state of the sea at the time is well illustrated in this striking aerial picture of the wreck of the m.v. Anzio / off the Lincolnshire coast on 3rd April, 1966. Some of the crew of the Number life-boat were injured because of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Busby
Ramsgate, Kent - At 4.14 p.m. on; 6th February, 1968, the honorary secretary was informed that the small tanker Busby was in difficultiei with her steering gear broken down off Ramsgate harbour. The life-boatMichael and Lily Davis slipped...
Rnli Medals and the Royal Mint By Oliver Warner
FROM ITS FOUNDATION in 1824, until the reign of George V, the Institution's medals were designed by officials of the Royal Mint. By courtesy of the Deputy Master, I am able to illustrate photographs of the original dies (Figs. 1 and 2),...
Category: Medals
Ellizer
KILMORE, oo. WEXFORD.—On the 21st February, the Life-boat John Robert was launched at 8 A.M., proceeded to the assistance of the Norwegian barque Ellizer bound from Belize for Fleetwood, with cargo of logwood, which had stranded on...