LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
£2,136 from Austin Motors
Starting in March 1942 the Austin Motor Company gave the Institution during the war one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it built for ships' life-boats. These gifts made a total of £1,123. The company also held a...
Category: Articles
Richard Willson
On the 15th February, during a fresh E. breeze, the Life-boat Bradford and steam-tug Aid proceeded out, in reply to signals from lightships, and found the ketch Richard Willson, of London, bound from Goole to Exmouth with coal, ashore on the...
NEW BRANCHES
A new branch was formed in Maidstone, Kent, during March (chairman B. Birchall and honorary secretary P. Clarke) and it has set itself a target of £1,000 for 1975. Anyone in the area who would like to help will be...
Category: Branches
Rescue Awards
SEVENTEEN crew members of life-boat and inshore rescue craft at stations around Britain are to receive awards from the Royal National Life-boat Institution for their recent actions in saving lives.
The men, operating from...
Category: Awards
Radar Is Being Fitted to More and More R.N.L.I. Boats and In the Top Picture Coxswain James Turpin, of the Fowey, Cornwall, Life-Boat Deneys Reitz, Which Was Built In 1954, Is Shown Operating Th
Radar is being fitted to more and more R.N.L.I. boats and in the top picture Coxswain James Turpin, of the Fowey, Cornwall, life-boat Deneys Reitz, which was built in 1954, is shown operating the Decca 050 display.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Bruce Parker
As Bruce Parker draws the winning tickets, they are recorded by Joyce Pearce of HQ appeals department.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above - Dover's Severn Class
Above - Dover's Severn class stands by as tugs struggle to put out the fire on Ever Decent.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steamer (31)
JULY 1 3TH. - WICKLOW. A steamer grounded on the North Arklow Bank, but got off unaided and went on her way.- Rewards, £10 13s..
H.M. Submarine Truculent
Margate, Kent, and Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 12th of January, 1950, the life-boats from these two stations were out on service, assisting with the transhipment of survivors from H.M.
Submarine Truculent.—Rewards: Mar-...
A Catamaran
Weymouth, Dorset.—24th September.
The life-boat searched for a catamaran, which got ashore without help.— Rewards, £7 16*. Qd..