LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Twenty-seventh Annual Meeting of this Institution was held on the 18th June last, at the United Service Institution, Whitehall Yard, Admiral the EARL of SHREWSBURY and TALBOT, C.B., in the unavoidable absence of the DUKE of MARLBOBOUGH,...
Category: Meetings
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
PRESERVATION OF LITE PROM SHIPWRECK.
Ob«Me.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
Category: Medals
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE.— In response to signals of distress from a vessel at anchor on the north-west side of the Hugo Bank, the Life- boat Charlie Medland was launched shortly after 3 P.M. on the 5th January.
They...
Category: Services
Left: Spirit Of The RCT Punches Through The Surf
Left: Spirit of the RCT punches through the surf Photo: RBS/Rick Tomlinson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
On the Self-Righting Principle In Life Boats
SINCE the publication of the Report of the Northumberland Life-boat Committee, a good deal has been said and written on the subject of the self-righting principle in life-boats in the event of their being upset, a quality which was strongly...
Category: Articles
Major H. E. Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Secretary of the Tynemouth Branch and Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
Hon. Secretary of the Tynemouth Branch and Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
By LIEUT-GENERAL SIR HENRY MERRICK LAWSON, K.C.B.
[A short account of Major Burton's career and,, in...
Category: Articles
Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards
SOUTH BANK, LONDON, TUESDAY MAY 22 AN OUTSTANDING DAY: THE CROWN OF A MEMORABLE YEAR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE from all parts of Great Britain and the Republic of Ireland, and, indeed, from many other parts of the world, came to the Royal Festival...
Category: Meetings
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
{Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED 4TH MARCH, 1824. - SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRON.
Most gracious Majesty VICE...
Category: Advertisement
A New Experimental Life-Boat With a Glass-Reinforced Plastic Hull and Deck— She Is 40-Foot Long-Was on 15Th January 1969 on View Tothe Press at Newhaven Sussex Her
A new experimental life-boat with a glass-reinforced plastic hull and deck— she is 40-foot long-was on 15th January, 1969, on view tothe press at Newhaven, Sussex. Here the boat, which has a maximum speed of 19 knots and cruising speed of 17... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fig 3: (Right) Building Starts of the First 47Ft Steel Fast Slipway Lifeboat Prototype the Gunwale Is Laid Down on a Deck Jig and the Five Watertight Bulkheads and Transom Erected Photographs By Cour
Fig 3: (right) Building starts of the first 47ft steel fast slipway lifeboat prototype. - View image in PDF
The gunwale is laid down on a deck jig and the five watertight bulkheads and transom erected.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs