LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Work on the Goodwin Sands
ON the night of the storm the coxswain of the life-boat entered the watch-house, clad in Ms black oilskin garments, and glittering with salt-water from top to too.
" There will be more work for us before long,...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Oh do pay attention 007 RNLI London Events Office held a James Bond fundraising party on the River Thames aboard HMS Belfast on 25 September.
Guests disguised themselves as their favourite Bond characters - ranging from 007...
Category: Articles
The Rev. Henry Vyvyan, of Cadgwith
By the death on 16th January of the Rev. Henry Vyvyan, M.A.,of Cadgwith, Cornwall, at the age of eighty-one, the Institution has lost one of the oldest and most distinguished honorary secre- taries of life-boat stations. When, in 1898, he...
Category: Obituaries
A Graceful Recognition of Services
the ON the 20th October, an interesting ceremony took place at the Sailors' Home, Holyhead, when the presentation of a Silver Medal and a reward in money, which had been voted by the Norwegian Government, was made to the coxswain and...
Category: Awards
Failsafe Part 1- Capsizing and Righting By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.
The first of two tremendous seas, a...
Category: Articles
In celebration of 2010
On 19 May 2011, the RNLI’s Annual General Meeting heard about the charity’s key activities from 2010, and the Annual Presentation of Awards recognised the outstanding achievements of lifesavers, fundraisers and...
Category: Articles
H.R.H. The Duke of Gloucester at the Padstow Ceremony
HRH The Duke of Gloucester at The Padstow Ceremony. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Removal of Wrecks Act, 1877, Amendment Act, 1889
NOT the least important work dene by the Legislature during this year's session has been the passing of an Act to amend the " Eemoval of Wrecks Act, 1877." Prior to this Act becoming law no provision existed for the removal of...
Category: Articles
Warwick Deeping
Wick, Caithness-shire,—At 2.12 on the morning of the 5fch of February, 1957, the Wick coastguard telephoned that the trawler Warwick Deeping, of Hull, was some fifty miles south of Dennis Head with her port side damaged. At 2.54 the...
Zodiac Mark V Ballast Tanks Attached to Underside of Floor They Are Shaped to Fit Beam and Depth of the Ilb's Bottom Sea Water from a Single Scoop Passes to the Ne
Zodiac Mark V ballast tanks attached to underside of floor.
They are shaped to fit beam and depth of the ILB's bottom. Sea water from a single scoop passes to the neoprene feeder pipes, which will lie on either side of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs