LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Bob Vowles,
April 1998 Bob Vowles, St Peter Port lifeboat station mechanic. He also served at the station as assistant mechanic and a crew member.
Category: Obituaries
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1931
Presentation of Prizes in the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 15th July, the Mayor of Westminster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) presided at the presentation of the...
Category: Articles
The Ramsgate Life-Boat and the Ketch "Lord Hamilton."
AT half-past two in the afternoon, of 12th February last, the Ramsgate Life- boat and tug were called out by a message from the Coast Guard that a vessel— found afterwards to be the ketch Lord Hamilton—was ashore on the north-east part of...
Category: Services
Signals for Life-Boat Stations
THE want having been often felt of some general system of signals for intercommu- nication, on occasions of shipwreck, between life-boat stations when within signal distance of each other, the Committee have caused the following simple plan...
Category: Articles
Lieut.-Commander Henrik De Booy
Lieut.-Commander Henrik de Booy, an honorary life governor of the Institution since October, 1933, died on yth September, 1964, at the age of 97. He was former secretary of the Royal North and South Holland Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
The West Boat Shed: Built In 1920
The West Boat Shed: Built In 1920. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain Harold Bradford of Exmouth Opens the National Boat Show
(see page 1 5). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Experimental R/T Sets for IRBS
Nine inshore rescue boats are being fitted experimentally with very high frequency radio telephones. The boats selected are stationed at Bangor, Berwick- upon-Tweed, Bridlington, Eastney, Holyhead, The Mumbles, Southend-on- Sea, Torbay and...
Category: Articles
Charlie Hodson Observes Rule of Passage
Charlie Hodson observes rule of passage-making number three, grab some sleep when you can, as The Princess Royal makes 17 knots in a seaway.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Special Gifts
"All my Pocket-Money." ONE shilling and threepence has been received from a little boy of Greenford, Middlesex, with a letter saying, " This is all my pocket-money; best wishes." No Tips! A cook-housekeeper working in...
Category: Donations