LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
NEW DISTRICT
A new organisational district of the R.N.L.I.
is now working from Salisbury, Wiltshire. This is known as the Southern District and the District Organising Secretary is Mr. A. K.
Oliver at 29a Castle Street...
Category: Committee
An Airliner (1)
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...
Meuse, and Asteria
JANUARY 18TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 6.52 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that the Belgian steamer Meuse was aground near the Haisboro’ Sands.
A W.N.W. wind was blowing with a moderate sea...
Fig 5: New Sacrificial Anodes Are Fitted to Afloat Boats Each Year the Wastage Caused By Electrolytic Action Can Be Seen By Comparing New Anode With Old One Just Taken O
Fig. 3: Buoyancy air cases, each shaped to fit and marked with its position, are taken out when opening up the hull for examination at partial and complete survey . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, Are Often Attracted to This Large R.N.L.I. Codfish Collecting Box Which Stands at the Approach to the Beach. Mr. W. E. Russell Is the Honorary Volunt
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, are often attracted to this large R.N.L.I. codfish collecting box which stands at the approach to the beach. Mr.
W. E. Russell is the honorary volunteer emptier of this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Margaret and Francis (1)
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—On the morning of the 16th December the Cockenzie drifter Margaret and Francis was bound, light, from Burghead to Leith, with a crew of three on board. A whole southerly gale was...
Notes and News
ELSEWHERE in this issue will be found full accounts of services performed by the Life-boats at Lowestoft, Gorles- ton, Spurn and Stromness, for each of which the Committee have made special awards of the Institution's medals for...
Category: Articles
While Lieutenant Governor for the Bailiwick of Guernsey Vice-Admiral Sir John Martin Kcb Dsc Mni Gave His Support to the Institution As President of Guernsey Branch While Lady Martin Serve
While Lieutenant Governor for the Bailiwick of Guernsey, Vice-Admiral Sir John Martin, KCB DSC MNI, gave his support to the Institution as president of Guernsey branch while Lady Martin served as president of Guernsey ladies' guild. At... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
John and George
.—The small motor fishing boat John and George, of Lowestoft, was fishing half a mile south- east of the Coastguard lookout on the morning of 7th April when her engine failed and her net fouled the propeller.
A moderate...
Margaret and Francis
Aberdeen, and Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
—On the morning of the 16th December the Cockenzie drifter Margaret and Francis was bound, light, from Burghead to Leith, with a crew of three on board. A whole southerly gale was...