LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
One Crew Member from Newquay's D Class Can Be Seen at the Edge of the Breakers
One crew member from Newquay's D class can be seen at the edge of the breakers with one of the casualties, while another is pan-way up the cliff helping a second casualty.
The combined efforts of the lifeboat,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Value of the Self-Righting Principle In Life-Boats
IN the 19th Number of this Journal we replied to the various theoretical objections that had been advanced against the selfrighting principle, and demonstrated that the same means which were employed to produce that effect contributed to the...
Category: Articles
Raymond Baxter of 'Tomorrow's World' Fame and a Member of the Rnl1 Public Relations Committee Moved the Resolution
Raymond Baxter of 'Tomorrow's World' fame, and a member of the RNL1 Public Relations Committee, moved the resolution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sea Angling Cruiser Queen of Aran
Galway Bay, Galway - At 5.20 p.m.
on 22nd August, 1969, the Marine Rescue Co-ordination Centre reported that the sea angling cruiser Queen of Aran, fishing between Great Man's bay and Kilronan, needed assistance. At...
Services of the Life-Boats In June, July and August, 1951. 116 Lives Rescued
DURING June life-boats went out on service 39 times and rescued 27 lives.
HOPE FOR THE FISH HARVEST Longhope, Orkneys.—At 1.57 on the morning of the 1st of June, 1951, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned that the fishing...
Category: Services
H. R. H. the Duke of Kent, K.G.
The death of the Duke of Kent in an air accident on August 2jth. is a very great loss to the life-boat service. Of all the members of the Royal Family who have been associated with it since its foundation none has taken a more generous and...
Category: Articles
Saved in the peck of time
Volunteers were diverted on their journey home, after launching to a rowing boat in difficulties that had since made it safely to shore. Eagle-eyed crew spotted a gannet struggling in Kinghorn Bay – it was tangled in plastic string along...
Category: Articles
Discussing the Merits of Their Atlantic 21 and Spidot Launching Trolley With Edward Heath Are Two Members of Littlestone-On- Sea Ilb Crew Charlie Davies and Paul
Discussing the merits of their Atlantic 21 and SPIDOT launching trolley with Edward Heath are two members of Littlestone-on- Sea ILB crew, Charlie Davies and Paul Reed.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Twenty-One Months of War.
In the first twenty-one months of war life-boats have rescued 3816 lives.
They have rescued more lives in the twenty-one months of war than in the last ten years of peace. They have rescued 42 lives every week..
Category: Articles
The Hardchine Hull (Right) Running at a Displacement Near to That of the Final Boat,
s. The hardchine hull (right) running at a displacement near to that of the final boat. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs