LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Saving By the Coastguard In 1935
DURING 1935 the coastguard took action in the case of 733 vessels off the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The rocket life-saving appar- atus companies were assembled 68 times for service and 87 people were brought to safety by...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th OCTOBER, 1908.
Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., O.M.G., in the Chair.
Colonel Fitzroy CLAYTON, V.P., who for the last twenty-five years had been the Deputy Chairman, was unanimously appointed...
Category: Committee
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
Salute the Lifesavers!
Can you imagine what life might have been like 200 years ago for children in the 19th century (1800-1899)? II was a lime when everything depended on how rich Iheir parents were. The government did little to help the poor who were trying to...
Category: Articles
David Scott Cowper's Ex- Watson Class Lifeboat Mabel E. Holland Beached at Depot Bay, Fort Ross to Carry Out Temporary Repairs During Her Epic Cicumnavigati
David Scott Cowper's ex- Watson class lifeboat Mabel E. Ho/land beached at Depot Bay, Fort Ross to carry out temporary repairs during her epic cicumnavigation via the North West Passage. One of the illustrations from Northwest Passage... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Naming of the 37Ft 6In Rother Lifeboat Rnlb Princess of Wales By Hrh the Princess of Wales
THE FRESHLY PAINTED and polished 37ft 6in Rother lifeboat to be named Princess of Wales sparkled against a backdrop of gentle mountains, their tops dusted with a light covering of snow.
The low winter sun's reflection...
Category: Inaugurations
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Aith, Shetlands - At 9 p.m. on 6th August, 1966, the local doctor informed the honorary secretary that an injured man on Foula Island urgently needed hospital attention. At 10.15 the life-boat John and Frances Macfarlane left her moorings...
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Flamborough and Filey, Yorkshire - At 3.20 p.m. on 9th May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a youth had fallen over the cliff about two miles north west of the life-boat station. The IRB stationed at Filey was...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUHTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Category: Advertisement
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SICK MAN TAKEN OFF U.S. NAVAL VESSEL Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. At 5.8 on the afternoon of the llth September, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the United States naval vessel Upshur, which was 32 miles north-east of...