LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Model Lifeboats
THREE SCALE WORKING MODEL lifeboats meet on the water; each is radio controlled, powered by twin 6v electric motors; each is painted in authentic RNLI colours; and each has been made by a Lifeboat Enthusiast.
The model of...
Category: Articles
The New Tractor for Launching Life-Boats
The Institution has now had designed for it, by the Four Wheel Drive Lorry Company, a Tractor, with a Roadless Traction creeper track, which, it is hoped, will be able to launch Life-boats off all types of beach. The carriages of the...
Category: Articles
Large Crowds Gathered Four Times a Day to Watch the Combined RAF and RNLI Rescue Displays.
Large crowds gathered four times a day to watch the combined RAF and RNLI rescue displays.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (65)
AUGUST 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A British aeroplane had come down in the sea, but only patches of oil were found.
- Rewards, £7 17s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (50)
JULY 20TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea fifteen miles south of Bognor, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £15 10s. 6d.
An Aeroplane (17)
MAY 20TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A bomber aeroplane had been seen to fall into the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £7 8s. 6d.
A Gas Rig (1)
Outbreak of fires At 4.30am on 4 January 2006, the B class Atlantic 21 Falmouth Round Table launched to a 6.7m yacht on fire on the Penryn River, Cornwall. The skipper had been asleep when the fire started but managed to escape through the...
Patronita
Hastings, Sussex. At 9.50 on the morning of the 4th November, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the yawl Patronita of Portsmouth needed help eight miles south-east of Hastings. This informa- tion had been received...
R E Prior & Co
CORNWALL Agents for town, country and waterside property on or near Falmouth Harbour, Carrick Roads and Helford River R.E.PRIOR & CO 3 Market Street, Falmouth.
Tel. 313636 10 Lemon Street, Truro.
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Category: Advertisement
Irish Coxswain's Third Medal.
Coxswain Patrick Sliney, of Ballycotton, who has already won the Institution's gold and bronze medals, has now won its silver medal for saving an Irish steamer and her crew of 35 men. The steamer's engines had failed and heavy seas...
Category: Articles