LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Gear and Its Stowage
AT first thought, the manner of stowing a Life-boat's gear might not appear to be a matter of much, importance: that it is so, however, we shall have little difficulty in showing.
Even on the ample deck of a man-of-...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 4th October, 1877: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspon- dence, and Wreck...
Category: Committee
New Device for Helicopter Rescues
LIEUT.-COMMANDER JOHN SPKOVLE, R.N., Commanding Officer of the Royal Naval Air Sea Rescue Unit at Ford, in Sussex, has designed a scoop for rescu- ing people from the sea by helicop- ter.
When not in use the net of the...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1929. Presentation of Prizes In the London District
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 6th February the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) presided at the presentation of prizes won in the Life-boat Essay Competi- tion in London (consisting of schools in the London County...
Category: Articles
Focus on . . . . Great Yarmouth and Gorleston
There she lies in the Gorleston boathouse—a sturdy, tubular creature, greyblack like the seals on the nearby Scroby sands who, at her approach, dive and slither into the sea, splashing noisily.
Jack Bryan, mechanic of the...
Category: Articles
What Happens to Old Life-Boats?
SOMETIMES the story is put about that the R.N.L.I. is in the habit of burning life-boats which have been involved in accidents. The truth of the matter is that on a few occasions in the past, when life-boat hulls have been wrecked beyond...
Category: Articles
Profiles
THE NAMES of famous lifeboatmen tend to stick to places along the coast. So, too, do the names of voluntary workers who over many years have left their mark on communities in the name of the lifeboat service. One of these is Mrs Kathleen...
Category: Articles
The Power of the Sea
Dunbar’s Trent class all-weather lifeboat Sir Ronald Pechell Bt parted the ground chain of her moorings and was repeatedly thrown against rocks in ferocious conditions of up to storm force 10 in the early hours of Easter...
Category: Articles
Excelsior and the Pilgrim
The Mincing Lane was also launched at 9.15 A.M. on the 2nd of May, to the assistance of two large decked fishingboats, the Excelsior and the Pilgrim, which were in danger during a heavy sea and a dense fog. The Life-boat pulled out about a...