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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The Navy's Tribute to the Life-Boat Service
ON 8th February, 1940, the Institution received the following letter from Sir Archibald Carter, K.C.B., K.C.I.E., Permanent Secretary to the Admiralty: " I am commanded by My Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to inform you that they...
Category: Correspondence
Lady of the Lake (1)
SIDMOUTH AND EXMOUTH. — On the 29th March, the smack Lady of the Lake, of Portsmouth, was seen to show signals of distress off High Peak. A strong E. to E.N.E. gale was blowing at the time,accompanied by snow. The Lifeboat Bimington,...
The Ketch-Rigged Yacht Totland
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 8.52 on the evening of the 2nd of September, 1953, the Walton coastguard reported that he had been informed by the master of the Cork lightvessel that the ketch-rigged yacht Totland was drift- ing slowly about...
The Naming Ceremony at Dover
Dr. A. L Geyer, High Commissioner for South Africa, presenting the life-boat. Beside him is the Countess Mountbatten of Burma, on the left Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Institution. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Praise from the Pensioners
Two letters of appreciation of the life-boat service, both enclosing donations, have recently been written to the Institution by old age pensioners.
Eighty-two year old Mrs. Emily Stabback, of Greenwich, London S.E.io,...
Category: Correspondence
Doing the Rounds
Rita Dlxon, member of Mirfield ladies guild, organised a sponsored bed and wheelchair push around Dewsbury and District Hospital raising £264 for the RNLI. Rita, an employee of the hospital, was joined by her son John, colleagues Joan... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boats of France
ALTHOUGH the French were the first to experiment, as early as 1775, with an 'unsinkable and uncapsizable skiff' (canot insubmersible et inchavirable), they did not develop an organized life-boat service until much later.
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The Icelandic Trawler Havardour Isfirdingur
On the evening of the 22nd January the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station telephoned that a vessel about the size of a trawler appeared to be aground on Spurn Point, south of the military pier. Two of the life-boat crew went to investigate and...
Above: Attaching the Inflatable Tubes
Above: Attaching the inflatable tubes to the Atlantic 21 hull. Surprisingly perhaps, the service life of tubes tends to be greater than that of the hull. Below: The Atlantic 21 in action - Southend-on-Sea's Percy Garon II. Photo A.... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs