LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Holyhead: the Duke of Kent Accompanied By Mr G M Burnell Station Honorary Secretary Meets Crew Members' Wives and Children Photograph By Courtesy of J C Davies
Holyheud: The Duke of Kent, accompanied by Mr G. M. Burnell, station honorary secretary, meets crew members' wives and children . . . - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of J. C. Davies. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
25 Years Ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June, 1963 Issue.
Notes of the Quarter THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the development of life-boat design and in the...
Category: Articles
Ships' Logs
AMONGST the many appliances which con- tribute to the safe navigation of a ship, none is of more importance than the small instrument termed " a log," by which the distance run can be approximately ascer- tained from day to day, or...
Category: Articles
Kay's Great Day
Storm Force member Kay Metcalfe with the medallists aboard the Arun class lifeboat Duke ofAtholl'in London before the presentation of Awards Ceremony on 22 May 1990.
From left to right: Helmsman David Steenvoorden,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
January (1)
JANUARY MEETING ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 5 in the afternoon of the 21st June, 1940, the coastguard reported a ship’s boat drifting some five miles north of Ilfracombe. A light N.N.W. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.
Category: Services
Lifeboats In Action
One man's courageA young man swept into the sea and crushed against rocks would surely have died were it not for the brave actions of lifeboatman Fergal Walsh. With no regard for the risk to himself he plunged into the sea to save the...
Category: Services
Annual Report. 1893
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1893, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G., in the Chair, the...
Category: Annual Reports
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD.—The steam Life-boat Duke of Northumberland was called out on service on the morning of the 26th Jan., 1893, signals of distress having been shown by the schooner Sarah, of and from Fowey for Runcorn, which had stranded on the...
Category: Services
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 3
IN the last number of the Life-boat Journal (August, 1900) this sketch was taken up to 1840, when the Liverpool type of Life-boat came into use, and the improvements in that type were traced up to the present date.
About...
Category: Articles
Another Steam Life-Boat
IN 1890 we had the pleasure of placing before our readers full detailed accounts of the first steam Life-boat ever built.
This vessel was a hydraulic steamboat built for the Institution by Messrs. E. and H. Green, of...
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