LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mid Warwickshire Yacht Club
Surrounded by fellow members, Tom Pearson, Commodore o/Mid Warwickshire Yacht Club, hands a cheque to Colin Nibbs, chairman of Leamington Spa branch, on his left. Miss Julia Johnstone, branch honorary secretary, holds a specially inscribed... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Mabel
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 14th March, in reply to signal guns from the East Goodwin Lightship, at 3.30 A.M., the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands, and found the ss. Mabel, of Hartlepool, ashore on the eastern part...
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-Dur- ing the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to...
Category: Services
Some Ways of Raising Money
Last year some boys belonging to the Bluebird Navigators visited the RNLI Depot at Boreham Wood with Mr Jim Garrard, of Kesgrove, Suffolk, their leader. Mr Garrard puts on his static displays for the RNLI all around the east coast and does...
Category: Articles
Legacy Lifeline
ifeline Legacies are a vital element of the RNLI's funding, particularly for long-term capital expenditure. With signs of a decline in this source of income we examine the ways in which a legacy can indeed offer a lifeline to casualties...
Category: Donations
The Underwater Shape of the Tyne Class Hull Is Well Illustrated During a Capsize Trial Note the Soft Round Bilges Deep Fine Bow and the Propellers Recessed Into Shallow
The underwater shape of the Tyne class hull is well illustrated during a capsize trial. Note the soft, round bilges, deep, fine bow and the propellers recessed into shallow tunnels and protected by long skegs.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded In 1875
Jan. 1.—JOHN ROWNAN, of Knalton, Co. Wa- terford, on the occasion' of the wreck of the barque Gwmissa, at Knalton Cove, afforded shel- ter to 3 of the crew who had got ashore, and af- terwards assisted to save 6 others of- the crew, all...
Category: Articles
With courage, nothing is impossible
The new RNLI memorial in Poole is a sculptural celebration of humanity at its best. But how did such an inspirational landmark come into being?
On a corner plot by a busy road, a metallic structure glints in the sunlight....
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
WEXFORD.—At about 8th Feb. 1884, telegrams were received stating that a large fourmast ship was ashore on the Pollock Rocks n Fethard Bay. The wind was blowing a whole gale from the south and the sea was very heavy. Horses were procured as...
Category: Services
Her First Day of Service
The Bridlington motor life-boat Tillie Morrison, Sheffield, escorting in the Scarborough fishing vessel Irene on the 5th December, 1947.
On the same day she helped to refloat a Fraserburgh drifter.
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Category: Photographs