LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Type of Life-Boat
A NEW type of life-boat, known as the Oakley type, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
Category: Articles
Cruser and Raven
About half-past four on the 7th July two small yawl-rigged yachts, the Cruiser and Raven, were observed by Holy Island fishermen to be running south before the wind off Berwick.
About 7 P.M. it was seen that these vessels...
Lark, of Wexford
Meantime tho Civil Service Life-boat had been instrumental in performing another service, for during the squally weather experienced on the afternoon of the 5th January, the smack Lark, of Wex- ford, was reported to have capsized be- tween...
An Aeroplane (78)
OCTOBER 12TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 12.39 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that an aeroplane had come down in the sea 3 1/2 miles S.W. of Towan Head, and the motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched at...
Raft from Canada Towed By Cornish Life-Boats
(see page 363). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Guiding Hand on Fire North East of Ramsgate
Guiding Hand on fire north east of Ramsgate.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A District Conference
A conference of the branches of the Outer London District was held at the offices of the Institution on March 10th. Commodore the Earl Howe, C.B.E., V.D., P.C., A.D.C., R.N.V.R., deputy chairman of the Institution, presided, supported by Sir...
Category: Meetings
Osprey
Salcombe, South Devon. At 10.14 p.m. on 29th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a white flag was being waved from a motor boat that was drifting south in Starehole Bay. At 10.25 the life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
Evi Livanos
Barrow, Lancashre. Shipping agents at Heysham telephoned the life-boat motor mechanic at 9 a.m. on i5th June, 1965, to say that the wife of a member of the crew of the Liberian tanker Em Livanos was an expectant mother and needed medical...
Some Unpublished Letters of Sir William Hillary, Bt
His Efforts to Interest the Admiralty in his Scheme for a Life-boat Service.
By Major Evan W. H. Fyers, Member of the Major Fyers, to whose researches we owe the discovery of these very interesting letters of Sir William...
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