LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Prince of Wales In a Motor Life-Boat
IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the Prince of Wales said that he hoped one day to have an oppor- tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This opportunity came when, a month later, he made his tour through his Duchy of Cornwall, and...
Category: Articles
Visitors at the Exhibition
The Mayor and Mayoress of Greenwich, Lady Kinahan, Vice-Admiral Sir Harold Kinahan, Mr. L. C. H. Cave, a member of the Institution's Committee of Management, and Mr. Frank Carr, director of the Museum (See page 109). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Naming of the St. Helier, Jersey, Life-Boat
THE Institution has replaced the pulling and sailing life-boat at St. Helier, Jersey, this year with a motor life-boat of the light Liverpool type, described on page 392. The new boat has been built out of a gift of £3,250 from...
Category: Inaugurations
Revision of the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea: An Introduction to An Introduction By Leslie J Vipond Inspector Mobile Training Unit
Coming into force 1200 zone time, July 15, 1977 AN INTRODUCTION TO AN INTRODUCTION by Leslie J. Vipond Inspector, Mobile Training Unit AS A YOUNG MAN, determined to follow the sea as a career, I grew up to fear the 'Articles'. The...
Category: Articles
The Admiralty Fuelling Steamer Rosa
A Fine Service at Flamborough.
A fine service was carried out by the Flamborough No. 1 Pulling and Sailing Life-boat, Forester, on April 28th, when she rescued the crew of sixteen of the Admiralty fuelling steamer Rosa. In...
The Airliner Cloud of lona
St. Peter Port, Guernsey, and St.
Helier, Jersey.—31st July. The air liner Cloud of lona had been reported .overdue, and the motor life-boat Queen Victoria put out and searched all night without success. Shortly after noon...
The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards May 10th 1988
Each year, as supporters of the RNLI make their way home from the Institution's annual meeting and presentation of awards, there is a feeling that surely the achievements of that year cannot be bettered.
Yet, each year...
Category: Meetings
(Right) 'Queen's Gala' Pitcaple Castle (See Above): In the Second of Six Dance Scenes Portraying the Life of Mary Queen of Scots the Young Mary (Julia Moir) In 1548
(Right) 'Queen's Gala', Pitcaple Castle (see above): In the second of six dance scenes portraying the life of Mary Queen of Scots, the young Mary (Julia Moir), in 1548, is rowed out to her ship for France by George Douglas... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Single-Handed Rescue By a Skye Fisherman
THE Institution has awarded its bronze medal for gallantry to Mr. Kenneth Macleod, a fisherman of Pooltiel, Isle of Skye, for rescuing single-handed in a small rowing boat three fishermen whose boat had been wrecked. On the afternoon of the...
Category: Awards
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1885
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Category: Services