LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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
Four Distinguished Coxswains. Richard Roberts, of Deal, William Cooper, of Ramsgate, Frederick John Eagles, of Plymouth, John Crocombe, of Lynmouth
Richard Roberts, of Deal, William Cooper, of Ramsgate, Frederick John Eagles, of Plymouth, John Crocombe, of Lynmouth.
THE Institution has lost by death during the last four months four distinguished ex-coxswains of...
Category: Obituaries
The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania (1)
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
A Welcome for the Duke from the Crowds As He Walked Up to the Exhibition Site With the Lord Mayor of Plymouth Councillor FJohnson (Right) and Captain Nigel Dixon
A welcome for the Duke from the crowds as he walked up to the exhibition site with the Lord Mayor of Plymouth, Councillor F.Johnson (right) and Captain Nigel Dixon, Director RNLI. . . .
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Category: Photographs
The S.S. Crawford Castle
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1860
1.—Moved by THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., Chairman of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping Society, Seconded by ALEXANDER BOETEFEUR, Esq. ; ; 1.—That the Report now read be adopted and circulated.
2.—Moved...
Category: Meetings
Swamped By Waves,
Swamped by waves, the boat goes under Mr Steward and friend Mr A tkinson manage to cling to the ferry, but Mrs Steward is swept under. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
the 47' Cabin Cruiser Shark
Trapped below THE RAMSGATE/CALAIS HOVERCRAFT advised HM Coastguard Dover Straits at 0925 on Thursday August 4, 1977, that distress flares had been seen on the eastern edge of the Goodwin Sands, near the East Goodwin Lightvesselwhere a cabin...
Legacies Paid to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
LEGACIES PAID TO THE ROYAL NATIONAL' LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION DURING THE TEN YEARS ENDED 31st DECEMBER, 1892.
[Legacieg under £250 are omitted after having oeeu published twice in tfce Annual Eeporfa.} Amount...
Category: Donations
The Steam Life-Boat "Queen."
In the Life-boat Journal for November 1890, will be found a full description of j the first steam Life - boat, Duke of Northumberland, which boat has been' continuously "in commission," so to speak, since that year, first at...
Category: Articles