LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (36)
JUNE 20TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had come down in the sea but small boats gave all the help needed. - Rewards, £20 5s. 9d. (See Hastings “ Services by Shoreboats,” page 146.).
Calendars and Cards
The R.N.L.I. Christmas card for 1968 will feature a reproduction of an excellent colour transparency showing the Skegness life-boat at sea. The card will sell at 9d., complete with envelope.
There will also be for the first...
Category: Advertisement
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Obverse.—An unlaureated head of George the Fourth; beneath, in minute letters, W. Wyon, Mint; double legend, " Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck."—" George the Fourth, Patron, 1824."...
Category: Medals
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND AND NEWBIGGIN, ABERDEENSHIRE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded new Life-boats to Blyth and Newburgh to take the place of Life-boats sent there some years since. Each boat is 31 feet long, 1 feet...
Category: Articles
Coxswain John King: Awarded a Silver Medal for Gallantry After Taking Off Five Crew from White Knight In Hurricane Force Winds
Coxswain John King: awarded a silver medal for gallantry after taking off five crew from White Knight in hurricane force winds.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 11th January, 1894.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
A Wreck at Sea
" Thy flitting form comes ghostly dull and pale, As driven by the beating storm at sea; Thy cry is weak and scared, As if thy mates had shared The doom of us. Thy wail— What does it bring to me ?" IT was perhaps an impious wish,...
Category: Articles
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1883
Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...
Category: Articles
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse—Bust of His Majesty KING EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....
Category: Medals
(Below) Fig 1: the Hull Skeleton Builds Up Note Aft Ramp and Mahogany Filler Chocks to Raised End Box Gunwale the After Compensating Chock Gives Strength Where
(Below) Fig. 1: The hull skeleton builds up. Note aft ramp and mahogany filler chocks to raised end box gunwale. - View image in PDF
The after compensating chock gives strength where gunwale will be cut away for steering pan.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs