LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifE belt are Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person...
Category: Articles
The London Tanker Thattepus
Barrow, Lancashire.—At 3.30 in the afternoon of the 12th of June, 1949, the police telephoned a wireless message received that a man had been seriously injured on the London tanker Thattepus, lying three miles south-west of Light- ning...
News from the Branches. 1st August to the 31st October, 1937
Greater London.
Life-boat stand at the Engineering and Marine Exhibition at Olympia. (A special report will appear in the next issue.) BEXLEYHEATH.—Annual meeting on 28th October, Mrs. Ford Sadler, M.B.E., chairman,...
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The Pyrene Company Limited
Pyrene protects ships and boats of all classes the world's greatest range of fire safety equipment THE PYREME COMPANY LIMITED Pyrene House £, Sunbury-on-Thames, Middx.
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Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Japan
By COUNT KOZO YOSHII, President of Teikoku Suinan Kinsaikai (the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society).[Count Kozo Yoshii represented the Imperial Japanese Life-boat Society at the International Life-boat Conference held in London, in July of...
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The Danish Steamer Hekla
JANUARY 21ST. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
The Danish steamer Hekla had been torpedoed, but her crew were picked up by the Norwegian steamer Iris. - Rewards, £9 19s. 6d..
The Material Revolution
"he days when wood was the automatic choice of material from which to build a lifeboat have long gone - today aluminium, steel and a new generation of composites are providing the solutions to technical problems. James Paffett explains ...
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Notes of the Quarter
AT a press conference held in London on 24th October, Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., Chairman of the R.N.L.I., announced a colourful programme of events to celebrate in 1974 the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the R.N.L.I...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF ATHOLL, chairman of the RNLI, praised the courage of the Penlee lifeboat crew lost last December and of their families at the annual general meeting of the governors of the RNLI held in London on Tuesday morning May 11. The Duke...
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(Centre) the Atlantic 75 Simulator
(Centre) The Atlantic 75 simulator gave younger visitors a chance to experience a 'trip' on a fast rigid inflatable.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs