LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mount Ida and a Lowestoft Drifter
Cromer, Norfolk.—9th October, 1939.
After rescuing the crew of twenty-nine of the Greek steamer Mount Ida, the No. 1 motor life-boat H. F. Bailey went to the help of a Lowestoft drifter, but found that her crew had been...
The Voluntary Spirit
Fortunately the age old advice 'never, ever volunteer' is as widely disregarded today as it was in Sir William Hillary's time. Richard Mann, the RNLI's Regions Manager, looks at some of the ways that the Institution is...
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Main Photo Left- Vistors Queue for a Guided Tour
Main photo left- Vistors queue for a guided tour of the lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Model of the Plenty Lifeboat Which Won a Diploma at the Hyde Park Exhibition of 1851
Model of the Plenty Lifeboat which won a diploma at the Hyde Park Exhibition of 1851.. - View image in PDF
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Plucked from the sea
FRASERBURGH | 9 JULY
Two children were saved from the North Sea after being swept out 250m from the shoreline. The boy and girl, aged 12 and 13, were being battered by waves and were in danger of drowning. Quickly on scene, the...
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A Service By the Margate Life-Boat to the German Cadet Training Ship Pamir
(See the Life-boat, vol. XXXIII, page 334.). - View image in PDF
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE Queen...
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(Left) Abersoch: the Atlantic 21 Ilb Her Tractor and Boathouse Were A/I Provided By the People of Wolverhampton
(Left) Abersoch: The Atlantic 21 ILB, her tractor and boathouse were a/I provided by the people of Wolverhampton.. - View image in PDF
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It Is Not Often That a Champion Fighter Pilot Asks to Look Round One of Our Life-Boats. In This Picture, Taken Some Time Ago, But Only Recently Made Available to the Life-Boat, Group Captain Dougl
It is not often that a champion fighter pilot asks to look round one of our life-boats. In this picture, taken some time ago, but only recently made available to THE LIFE-BOAT, Group Captain Douglas Bader, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., the legless... - View image in PDF
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37' 6" Rather Class Lifeboat a Development of the 37' Oakley Redesigned So That Self-Righting Potential Is Derived Entirely from Hull Form Volume of Superstructure Is Sub
37' 6" Rather class lifeboat, a development of the 37' Oakley redesigned so that self-righting potential is derived entirely from hull form. Volume of superstructure is substantially increased to give buoyancy necessary to right... - View image in PDF
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