LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Spain
By DON PEDRO DE NOVO Y COLSON, General Secretary of the Sociedad Espanola de Salvamento de Naufragos.
THE Society was founded in December, 1880 (under the patronage of H.M. Queen Dona Maria Cristina, its first protecting...
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The Annual General Meeting
THE annual general meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 25th of March, 1958. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings
Where the Robsons Work
The Fame Islands and the Northumberland Coast. Photograph taken from the top of the Longstone Lighthouse.. - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (13)
JULY 17TH. - CLACTON-ON-SEA, AND WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. A message had been received from the coasttake guard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea between Walton pier and Gunfleet Lighthouse and that a man had come down from it by...
The South Rock Lightvessel
Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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Lieut.-Commander P. E. Vaux, D.S.C., R.N. Inspector of Life-Boats for the Irish District. Bronze Medallist
Lieut-Commander P E Vaux DSC RN Inspector of Life-Boats For The Irish District Bronze Medallist. - View image in PDF
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News from the Branches
Perth.
The Annual Meeting was held on the 19th May, the chair being taken by the Rev. P. R. Landreth, the Chairman of Committee. The Report showed that for the nine months ending the 30th Septem- ber, 1919, the-Branch had...
Category: Branches
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a roan heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides himself.
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Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1953 78,497 Notes of the Quarter THE terrible disaster at Arbroath, following...
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