LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duckhams Oils Ltd
Since experimental trials in '63 the ILBs have proved so successful that there are now over 100 of them in regular use as well as the 135 conventional lifeboats. Last year, these tough, nearly indestructable craft, were called out 1,291...
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A Sailing Dinghy (3)
TWO CAME BACK Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 12.39 p.m. on ist September, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized half a mile off Black Rock sands and both occupants were in the sea. There...
(Left) the Final Product, the First Severn
(Left) The final product, the first Severn - in prototype form at least. Four hectic years have passed from the first Operational Requirements, through concept, design, testing, modification, development and operational trials .
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Category: Photographs
Walmer Centenary
QUEEN ELIZABETH THE QUEEN MOTHER presented a certificate inscribed on vellum to commemorate the establish- ment of a life-boat station at Walmer one hundred years ago at a ceremony which took place at the Walmer boat-house on the 23rd of May...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Leelite
On the morning of the 28th of November the s.s. Leelite, of Aberdeen, left the harbour intending to go to sea, but as there was a very heavy sea on the bar, the Cox- swain of the Life-boat was on the look out, as he was apprehensive of the...
University Marine Ltd
Photograph by courtesy c/ t EI1JOVS ITS WORK On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.
Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always...
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Speedwell
New Brighton, Cheshire. — On the morning of the 10th of March, 1952, the fishing boat Speedwell, with the life-boat's second coxswain and a life- boatman on board, had gone out.
On the following morning, as she had not...
The Humber's Great Record.
The Humber station has the outstanding record for the year. Its life-boat "City of Bradford 11" has been launched on service 32 times and has rescued 189 lives. Its coxswain and crew have won one gold, two silver and three bronze...
Category: Articles
Mrs. P. J. Grenside
Mrs. P. J. Grenside, who was an honorary life-governor of the Institu- tion, died in August, 1963. She was appointed honorary secretary of the Godalming branch in 1929 and was awarded the gold badge in 1936. She was elected an honorary life...
Category: Obituaries
A Rowing Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At 11.10 on the morning of the 22nd of December, 1954, the coastguard reported that two men in a rowing boat two miles east of the pier were waving a white rag on an oar. At 11.23 the life-boat Sir Godfrey Raring was...