LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services by Life-boats
Services by the Life-boats of the Institution, by Shore-boats and by Auxiliary Rescueboats during 1942 During the year life-boats were launched 443 times. Of these launches 244 were to vessels and aeroplanes in distress through attack by the...
Category: Services
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Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 12.55 a.m. on 3rd May, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that anxiety was being felt for the safety of a fishing party of some nine or ten people who had not returned to...
Life-Boat Societies
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the rnternationaf Life-boat Conference that it she act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all life-boat societies. The Institution...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
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Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 7.15 on the evening of the 1st August, 1961, the police informed the honorary secretary that a man had fallen over the cliff at Monkstone beach. Five minutes later the life-boat Henry Comber Brown was launched on a...
In the Crinan Canal. The Converted "John Groome" on Her Way to Skye
In The Crinan Canal The Converted " John Groome " On Her Way To Skye. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Barge (1)
Youghal, Co. Cork. At 6.15 on the evening of the 16th of November, 1960, the motor mechanic was told that a boat being used in the construction of the new bridge at Youghal was in difficulty and drifting seawards. The weather was cloudy,...
A Sailing Dinghy (1)
DINGHY'S CREW REFUSE OFFER OF HELP Criccieth, Caernarvonshire. At 4.50 on the afternoon of the 15th May, 1963, a local resident informed the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy was in difficulty between a mile and a half and...
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In response to guns from the East Goodwin Light- vessel indicating a vessel was on that part of the sands, the Life-boat Charles Dibdin was launched at 8.30 A.M. on the 10th March. A passing steamer kindly towed the Life-boat part of the way...
Gift from a Will
THE Institution has received a gift of £50 from the surviving brother and sister of a marine surveyor in Wales who died intestate at the end of 1951.
They write that they know their brother had a great admiration for...
Category: Donations