LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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 is...
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Port St. Mary, and Port Erin, Isle of Man. At 11.10 on the morning of the 23rd of December, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Port St. Mary that fire had broken out on the lighthouse on Chickens Rock. It had been...
Lowering Ships' Boats at Sea
IN December, 1859, the Committee of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION presented to Mr. CHARLES CLIFFORD, of London, a vote of thanks,' inscribed on vellum, in acknowledgment of his indefatigable exertions in inventing and...
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The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Deck Plan.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these...
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The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. l.
Deck Plan.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air...
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On a Lee Shore
off, with T. Murphy and J. McCarthy, in the punt belonging to the yawl, and succeeded in rescuing, at great personal risk, three men who were clinging to the mast of the sunken vessel. Seeing that two other persons were clinging to the rocks...
Category: Drawings
Life-Boat Conferences. South-East of England
A CONFERENCE of Life-boat workers was held at. Folkestone on 2nd May.
The delegates were welcomed by the Mayor of Folkestone and Major Sir Philip Sassoon, Bt., G.B.E., C.M.G., M.P., Under-Secretary of State for Air, and...
Category: Meetings
Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on the 6th March, 1962. Reporting on the past year's work, Earl Howe, Chairman of the...
Category: Meetings
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ITS the December Number of this Journa it was stated that several additional Life boat Stations had been formed, and new boats built to replace old ones.
In addition to those previously enume- rated, we have the...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 12th January, 1905.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
Category: Committee