LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Launch Into South-Westerly Strong Gale Force 9 Sunday March 22:
Launch into south-westerly strong gale, force 9, Sunday March 22: Three progressive photographs of Eastbourne lifeboat, the 37ft 6in Rather Duke of Kent, taken by 16-yearold Matthew Hancock as (left) she launched down her slipway into... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late George Lennox Watson, Consulting Naval Architect to the Institution 1887-1904
IT is fifty years this year since George Lennox Watson, the yacht designer, of Glasgow, was appointed consulting naval architect to the Institution.
Looking back over these fifty years, one can say that Mr. Watson's...
Category: Articles
A Dinghy (16)
Howth, Co. Dublin - The life-boat A.M.T. was launched on 24th Angust, 1967, and landed the crew of two of a dinghy who had been rescued by the IRB. A full account of this service appears on page 304..
An Aeroplane (16)
DECEMBER 10TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
An aeroplane had been reported crashed in the sea, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £18 14s..
Joan
Arklow, Co. Wicklow.—At four o'clock on the afternoon of the 20th of Sep- tember, 1953, the life-boat motor mechanic noticed that the sailing dinghy Joan, with two men and a boy on board, had capsized a hundred yards north-east of the...
Coming to our AGM and annual awards?
The RNLI AGM and annual presentation of awards will take place at The Barbican, London, on 21 May 2015. Details of the AGM will be mailed to Governor members of the RNLI, and more details about both events will feature in the next edition of...
Category: Articles
A Steamer (29)
MAY 28TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE ; ILFRACOMBE, DEVON ; LYNMOUTH, DEVON ; AND MINEHEAD, SOMERSET. A large steamer had caught fire and had sunk after an explosion, but the crew were rescued by patrol vessels. - Rewards : Barry Dock,...
Town & Country
Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, its beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a unique fibre reinforcement that helps prevent sinking and spreading.
Its surface, once sealed, is...
Category: Advertisement
Special Trust Funds Income Account, 1902
To TRANSFERS TO INCOME AND EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (see p. 603) . £. i. d. £. i. d.
Blake Life-boat Maintenance Fund 40 10 - Dnnnett Widows and Orphans Fund 128 9 1 Reardon Samaritan Fund 146 17 ...
Category: Accounts
The Last of the Life-Boat Horses
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1936 - 64,872 The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the...
Category: Articles