LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Centenary of the Institution
PLANS FOR ITS CELEBRATION.
We are now within four months of the end of our first century. The Institution was founded on 4th March, 1824, at a " Public Meeting of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, and others held at the...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service Abroad
FRANCE.
THE " Annales du Sauvetage Maritime," the journal of the Societe Centrale de Sanvetage des Naufrages, for the last quarter of 1913 shows that the Society has granted rewards for the saving of 21,275...
Category: Articles
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 54 Number 533 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD .
Editorial Assistants: MARY GYOPARI JON JONES...
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Capt E. G. Newton
With the appointment of Capt. F. H. Edwards as honorary secretary of the Falmouth branch, Falmouth remembers the long association with the Institution —some 15 years—of the late honorary secretary, Capt. E. G. Newton, who took a personal...
Category: Branches
Receipts and Payments Account for the Year Ended 31st December, 1963
1962 £ 240,845 PAYMENTS.
LIFE-BOATS.— New life-boats for the following stations: On account — Boulmer, Caister, Cullercoats, Hastings, Howth, Kirk- cudbright, Llandudno, Longhope, Lowestoft, Sal- combe, Seaham...
Category: Accounts
January
JANUARY Launches 63 Lives rescued 100 JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick...
Category: Services
Fig 3: Looking Up Into the Starboard Propeller Tunnel Lower End of Rectangular Propeller Freeing Scupper Can Be Seen Clearly and Also Further Forward the Hole Which
Fig 3: Looking up into the starboard propeller tunnel, lower end of rectangular propeller freeing scupper can be seen clearly and also, further forward, the hole which will take the stern tube for the propeller shaft. Outboard of the tunnel... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Belgian Motor Trawler Ibis
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT DUNMORE EAST FEBRUARY 28TH and MARCH 1ST.- DUNMORE EAST, CO. WATERFORD.
At 11.15 in the morning of the 28th the motor life-boat C. & S., of Dunmore East, was launched to the help of the...
The Effect of Oil on Breaking Waves and Coast Surf
THE expression " Pouring oil on troubled waters" "has been from some remote period metaphorically used to signify the allayment of anger and strife by kind and gentle words. Like all other metaphors, this one was no doubt...
Category: Articles
The Merchant Vessel Galina (1)
Fortitude off Falmouth Without power, Merchant Vessel Calina found herself at the mercy of a violent storm and drifting dangerously close to shore. With the nearest Coastguard Emergency Towing Vessel (ETV) several hours away, RNLI crew were...