LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (27)
JUNE 27TH. - DUNGENESS, KENT. At 12.27 P.M. a message was received from the Sandgate coastguard that a Hurricane fighter aeroplane had come down in the sea about six miles S.S.W. of Dungeness. A light westerly breeze was blowing and the sea...
Closing of the Wexford Station
FOE the past sixty-six years the Institu- tion has maintained a Life-boat Station at Wexford, at the south-eastern corner of Ireland. It has been one of the most important Stations on the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland, for it has...
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The Hurricane at Calcutta
DrrAJis of the late disastrous hurricane at Colj cutta show that the destruction of property was even greater than at first supposed, although, happily, fhe loss of life appears to have i e , j not so great as at first reported. Letters from...
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H.R.H. The Prince of Wales at the Torbay Inaugural Ceremony
(The Prince is speaking from the platform on the left.). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Florence
On 9th December, 1915, the s.s. Florence, of Stockton, whilst bound from London to Newcastle with a cargo of oil stranded on the "Middle Binks." It was a very dark night and blowing a strong gale, with a terrible sea running over...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 31st August, 1939.
Paid £31,992 16s. 6d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, including rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways...
Category: Committee
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of e, life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (Tmmimmn 28 Ibi., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
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The Dutch Medina Lifeboat Koningin Beatrix (Below) Which Visited Poole In Early June Demonstrates the Exceptional Manoeuvrability of Her Jet Propulsion Off the Shingle Bank
The Dutch Medina lifeboat Koningin Beatrix (below), which visited Poole in early June, demonstrates the exceptional manoeuvrability of her jet propulsion off the Shingle Bank.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (9)
Angle, Pembrokeshire.—18th September, 1939. At one in the morning it was reported that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea. She sank justafter the life-boat reached her. There was no sign of her crew. The life-boat again searched in the...
Then And Now
tHen AnD noW State of the art When crowds gathered in Dover on 10 July 1930 to see the naming of a new 20m motor lifeboat, they were to witness an historic moment for the RnLi.
named Sir William Hillary after the founder of...
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