LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medallists of 1975: (L to R Back Row First) Coxswain Frank Bloom Walton and Frinton; Helmsman Michael Coates Whitby; Coxswain John Petit and Crew Member John R
Medallists of 1975: (I. to r., back row first) Coxswain Frank Bloom, Walton and Frinton; Helmsman Michael Coates, Whitby; Coxswain John Petit and Crew Member John Robilliard, St Peter Port: Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Institution and the City of London
A PUBLIC meeting in furtherance of the objects of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held on Wednesday afternoon, the 13th June last, in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House, by the special invitation of the Eight Hon. the LORD...
Category: Articles
The New 48-Foot 6-Inch Life-Boat
THE Institution has produced its first life-boat of the larger class, with a cabin and shelter for the crew and survivors, which incorporates the self-righting principle. This is a 48-foot 6-inch life- boat designed by Mr. R. A. Oakley,...
Category: Articles
The Centenary Dinner
A DINNER in celebration of the Institu- tion's Centenary was held at the Hotel Cecil, on 2nd July, 1924. H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, K.G. (the Institution's President) presided, and those present numbered 478, among them being...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches. 1st August to the 31st October, 1937
Greater London.
Life-boat stand at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition at Olympia. (A special report will appear in the next issue.) BEXLEYHEATH.—Annual meeting on 28th October, Mrs. Ford Sadler, M.B.E., chairman,...
Category: Branches
A Rowing Boat
On the after- noon of the 25th June the coastguard reported that a rowing boat with six apparently inefficient persons on board was making towards harbour. Shortly afterwards a thick fog settled down and it was decided to send out the motor...
A Small Boat (2)
Moelfre, Anglesey. — Shortly after noon on the 31st July a small boat, which had put out from Benllech with two men on board, was seen to be in difficulties. A strong S.W. breeze was blowing with a rough sea, and the boat was in great danger...
Fishing Boats
Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at 4.15 the coast- guard telephoned that several fishing boats from Pittenweem were lying off the harbour, waiting for the tide to rise...
Fishing Boats (1)
Sheringham, Norfolk. —• During the morning of the 6th of February, 1948, as, the weather was getting bad, anxiety was felt for the safety of three local fishing boats which were returning from the whelk grounds, and just after noon the motor...
A Rubber Dinghy (2)
Minehead, Somerset. — At noon on the 5th of August, 1949, the police reported that two men in a rubber dinghy were be.ing blown out to sea from St. Audries Bay, and the life-boat Kate Greatorex put out at 12.30. A light south-westerly breeze...