LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Why Does She Get Launched?
WHY does she get launched ? A ship, that is.
In other words, why, really, is a ship always a she, and why is she invariably launched with ceremony and usually the traditional bottle of champagne ? Here are the answers,...
Category: Articles
Mr. R. O. Hill, of Drogheda
The Clogher Head Station, Co. Louth, and the Drogheda branch, which was also a life-boat station until 1929, have lost one of their most valued sup- porters by the death of Mr. R. O. Hill.
For twenty years, from 1911 to...
Category: Obituaries
And Another: Spidot a Self-Powered Unit Which Is An Integral Part of the Trolley the Engine Is High Above the Water Note the Anchor Which Is Dropped on Shoreline Fo
And another: SPIDOT a self-powered unit which is an integral part of the trolley. The engine is high above the water. Note the anchor which is dropped on shoreline for emergency recovery of the unit. Note, too, the guiding lights on the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Services
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During the Year 1876
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Category: Services
Mr. John H. Amos, of Middlesbrough
Mr. John H. Amos, of Middles- brough, Yorkshire, who died on 12th June, at the age of eighty-four, was for twenty years an honorary official of the Middlesbrough branch. He became its honorary treasurer in 1911, and its honorary secretary in...
Category: Obituaries
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Governors.
Mr. FRANCIS LE BOULANGER, honorary secretary of the Mumbles branch, has been elected an honorary life-governor of the Institution in recognition of the valuable services which he has rendered to the...
Category: Awards
A Boat (1)
Troon, Ayrshire. At 2.50 on the afternoon of the 9th of June, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was in difficulties three miles south-east of Brodick pier. The life-boat James and Barbara Aitken put out...
Ilfracombe - Mersey Class Spirit of Derbyshire
llfracombe's new Mersey class lifeboat Spirit of Derbyshire on the slipway ready for her naming ceremony on 29 September 1990 (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Prototype 14M Fast Afloat Boat (Fab 4) Is at Present Being Fitted Out at William Osborne's Yard In Littlehampton See Page 90 for Details of the 17M Fab 3 No
The prototype 14m Fast Afloat Boat (FAB 4) is at present being fitted out at William Osborne's yard in Littlehampton. See page 90 for details of the 17m FAB 3, now afloat for trials.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs