LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Brookside
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 31st of March, 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that he had intercepted a wireless message from the S.S.
Brookside, of Sunderland, which said...
Many Services of Re-Dedication Were Held on March 4 at Lifeboat Stations Canon G Oram Conducted the Service at Aldeburgh Photograph By Courtesy of Tony Ray
Many services of re-dedication were held on March 4 at lifeboat stations. - View image in PDF
Canon G. Oram conducted the service at Aldeburgh. - View image in PDF
Photograph by courtesy of Tony Ray. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, Presi- dent of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 30th of March, 1960, and presented medals for gallantry and other...
Category: Meetings
The Rnli Were Beneficiaries from An Open Day at Billingsgate Market London When the Public Were Invited to Watch Demonstrations and Buy Species Offish That They Would Not Necessarily Find At
The RNLI were beneficiaries from an open day at Billingsgate Market, London, when the public were invited to watch demonstrations and buy species offish that they would not necessarily find at their local fishmongers. Here Ronald Nichols is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danger of Rubber Dinghies
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to October 31st, 1950 - 77,074 The Danger of Rubber Dinghies EVERY year life-boats are called...
Category: Articles
The American Life-Raft for Passenger Ships
TOP VIEW OP A TWO-CYLINDER RAFT.
SIDE VIEW SHOWING STRINGER PIECES, ETC.
SECTIONAL VIEW, CUT TRANSVEBBELT, OF A THREE-CYLINDER RAFT.
THE recent passage across the Atlantic Ocean, from...
Category: Articles
lona, of Belfast
At 3.40 P.M. on the 4th March, in consequence of signals from the Bock Lighthouse at the entrance of the Mersey, the tubular Life-boat Willie and Arthur started in tow of the steam-tug Wonder for the Pormby Spit. A moderate gale was blowing...
The Caister Life-Boat Disaster
THE terrible disaster which overtook one of the Life-boats belonging to the Institution, stationed at Caister on the coast of Norfolk, in November last will be fresh in the minds of our readers.
The expressions of sympathy...
Category: Articles
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 6. Mr. G. L. Thomson, J.P., Honorary Secretary of the Stromness Branch
THE most northerly of all the Institution's Life-boat Stations is at Stromness on the west coast of Mainland or Pomona, the largest of the f i f t y - s i x i s l a n d s which form the Orkneys. There was a still more northerly Station...
Category: Articles
The S.S. President
At 1.5 A.M. on the 6th December a message was received, stating that a steamer was ashore at Druridge Bay. The crew of the Life-boat Mary Andrew were at once called, the Life-boat was launched at 1.30 A.M. and proceeded to the vessel, which...