LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
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Notes of the Quarter
THE happenings in the first six months suggest that 1961 may well, in terms of figures, be an outstanding and possibly a record year in the history of the service. During these six months the Institution's life-boats were launched on...
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Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Month of December, 1874
wtck. Site of Wreck. Wind and Weather. Name of Vessel. 1874.
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Category: Services
The Late George Palmer, Esq.
WE recently had to record the death of our late valued Chairman, Mr. WILSON, and now his old friend and coadjutor in the cause of humanity, Mr, PALMER, late Deputy- Chairman of the Royal Shipwreck Institution, and Inventor of the Life-boats...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat 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, and to enable him to support another person besides...
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The Loss of a Life-Boatman on the Mersey
FOR the past four years no Life-boatman has lost his life at sea. When it is remembered that in that time 1,507 lives have been rescued from shipwreck, and that altogether, on service and exer- cise, between 40,000 and 50,000 men were afloat...
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The Life-Boat Tradition
IN May last the Institution awarded a Lifeboatman Statuette to Miss Trudy Haylett, of Caister-on-Sea, Norfolk, for her work for the Institution in Yar- mouth and Caister. The name of Haylett is famous in the Life-boat history of the East...
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Poster Stamps of the Life-Boat Service (1)
GRACE DARLING. An early Life-boat heroine.
In 1838, she and her father rescued nine people stranded on a rock, survivors from the wrecked ship For far- shire, of Dundee. They won Silver Medals.
(From the...
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The Annual Meeting.
The annual meeting of the Institution was held in London on April 30th., and the principal speaker was Sir Arthur Salter, K.C.B., M,P., Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Shipping. For the first time since J914, when the custom was...
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