LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Profit of £400 Was Made for the RNLI at the Cheese and Wine Tasting Evening Held at the Royal Naval College Greenwich on 8Th September 1972 the 350 Tickets
by courtesy of David Crowden A profit of £400 was made for the R.N.L.I, at the cheese and wine tasting evening held at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, on 8th September, 1972. The 350 tickets for the event were sold by local branches... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Anversville
Dungeness, Kent.—During the night of the 9th April a message was received from the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station, Dungeness, that a large steamer was ashore near the point. She was the s.s. Anversville, of Antwerp, with about 200 persons...
The Danger of Rubber Dinghies: A Correction
AN article was published in the last number of The Life-boat (Autumn, 1950) on the great danger of rubber dinghies, and a list was given of life-boats launched to their help in the summer of 1950. There were ten launches and eighteen lives...
Category: Articles
Charlotte of Woodbridge
On the 3rd June, the sloop Charlotte, of Woodbridge, was wrecked on Whitburn Rocks. She was observed to be driving towards them with both anchors down, and on her hoisting a signal of dis- tress, the life-boat Thomas Wilson, belong- ing to...
The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
LIFESAVING IN FRANCE
The Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer 1973 NEWS HAS COME from France of the launching by the Societe Nationale de Sauvetage en Mer of a new 15.5 m 'all seasons' lifeboat, Pierre Loti; a boat which cost over £100,000 to build...
Category: Articles
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Wilfred Perrin of Skegness.
He was appointed coxswain in October 1947, and since then Skegness life-boats have been launched on service 47 times and have rescued 22...
Category: Articles
The Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Life-boat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 26th of March, 1957. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings
Vigilant, of Hayle
On the same day the schooner Vigilant, of Hayle, was seen in distress during bad weather, and in a heavy sea, on the western spit of Hayle Bar. The Oxford University life-boat Isis stationed at that port was launched, and succeeded in...
The Prince of Wales at the Bradford Matinee
THE Prince of Wales gave yet another proof of his deep personal interest in the work of the Institution and its Branches when he visited Bradford on 13th November. His visit was for the purpose of opening the new buildings of the Chamber of...
Category: Articles