LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The German Life-Boat Society During the War
THE War, which caused such an inter- ruption in neatly every branch of national and international life, very soon led to a complete cessation of the exchange of journals and reports between this Institution and the Life-boat Services of our...
Category: Articles
The Loss Of A Comrade
The loss of a comrade It is almost 10 years since RNLI Coxswain Hewitt Clark and Coastguard Winchman Billy Deacon attended the Green Lily, struggling in ferocious conditions off the Shetland Isles. Only one of these two brave men was to...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, llth May, 1933.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., followed by Sir JOHN G. CUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., in the chair.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., and the Hon.
George Colville were re-elected...
Category: Committee
(B) the Severn Closes In.
In photo(B) the Severn closes in. The tow parts and with Green Lily's bow away from the wind and creating a slight lee the Severn has an opportunity to go in.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The RNLI and the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund
The RNLI and the Fire Services National Benevolent Fund both received cheques for £475 in March as the result of a fire engine pull from Cheltenham to Tewksbury. The event saw Cheltenham branch members, together with local fire fighters... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Crew of the Porthdinllaen Lifeboat In the 1950S.
When some of these award winners joined the RNLI, crews wore oilskins, sou'westers and kapok lifejackets, like those worn by the crew of the Porthdinllaen lifeboat in the 1950s. The Waveney class lifeboat Ipp22~23) was yet to be... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Survey Ship H.M.S. Echo
UNSUCCESSFUL SEARCH Margate, Kent. At 3.41 p.m. on ist April, 1964, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two men had been lost overboard from the survey ship H.M.S. Echo in the Edinburgh Channel off the North East Shingles...
The Gathering at Walford School Ealing for the Cheque Handing-Over (See Below) the School Has Adopted the Whitstable IRB
The gathering at Walford School, Ealing, for the cheque handing-over (see below). The school has adopted the Whitstable IRB.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Greek Medal for the Institution
To the foreign honours conferred on the Institution on the occasion of its Centenary has now to be added a silver medal from Greece. On 12th January of this year the Naval A.D.C. to the Greek President wrote : " The President has...
Category: Awards
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. l.
. Sheer Plan.
Fig. 2.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of...
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