LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
4: She Is Kept on Even Keel With Balancing Poles Which Support Her While She Is Hauled on To
4: She Is Kept On Even Keel With Balancing Poles Which Support Her While She Is Hauled On To. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Siroco
Walmer, Kent.—At 5.28 on the after- noon of the 27th of April, 1953. the Deal coastguard rang up to say that the fishing boat Siroco, of Boulogne, had hit a wreck in the Downs and appeared to have stuck, and at 5.35 the life-boat Charles...
Earl Russell, K.G., on Sailors' Orphans
AT the opening, on the 29th July last, of the new Asylum at Snaresbrook for Merchant Seamen's Orphans, EARL RUSSELL, K.G., H.M. Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, made some appropriate remarks on the occasion.
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Category: Articles
Lewisham Branch
The bowls club of Britannic House, the London headquarters of British Petroleum, held an invitation tournament in August. It was in aid of the RNLI and this photograph shows the players launching their bowls towards the centre of the green... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Built to Order Built to Last
The Atlantic 21 has to be tough and reliable - the lives of survivors and crew depend on it. Claire Judd, Assistant Editor, visited the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre, Cowes, to investigate the work that goes into the construction of...
Category: Articles
An Airliner
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
Coxswain/Mechanic Ronald Cannon of Ramsgate
Coxswain/Mechanic Ronald Cannon of Ramsgate first joined the crew in 1964, became bowman in 1967 and coxswain/mechanic in 1976. He was awarded a long service badge in 1984 and a silver medal in 1986 in recognition of the courage and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Long Distance Services
Stromness, Orkneys; Wick, Caithness-shire.
ON the night of June 13th the Motor | Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to...
Category: Services
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the year ended the 30th June, 1906, the United States Life-Saving Establishment comprised 278 stations, an increase of one station as compared with the total of the preceding year. All the stations were comprised in thirteen...
Category: Articles