LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1851
Moved by Mr. SAMUEL GREGSON, M.P., and seconded by Capt. F. W. BEECHEY, R.N., Board of Trade.
1.—That the Report now read be adopted, published, and circulated.
Moved by Capt. REDMAN, one of the Elder...
Category: Meetings
Listings
Lifeboat and hovercraft launches remainder of March-June 2006 Listings ABERDEEN ON-1248(17-24):May 5,12 ON-1262(17-33):Jun 13 D-536:Apr 20,May 7(x2),Jun 13 ABERDOVEY B-758:Apr 21,May 1,Jun 10,11(x2),13 ABERSOCH B-790:Apr 13,20,27,28, May...
Category: Articles
The Union Castle Liner Winchester Castle
Weymouth, Dorset.—On the night of the 16th February the 20,000-ton Union Castle liner Winchester Castle, bound from Port Natal for Southampton, ran aground two hundred yards south of Blacknor Fort. A moderate S.E. breeze was blowing, with a...
Zodiac Mark V Ballast Tanks Attached to Underside of Floor They Are Shaped to Fit Beam and Depth of the Ilb's Bottom Sea Water from a Single Scoop Passes to the Ne
Zodiac Mark V ballast tanks attached to underside of floor.
They are shaped to fit beam and depth of the ILB's bottom. Sea water from a single scoop passes to the neoprene feeder pipes, which will lie on either side of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Alacrity
COLLIER AGROUND IN THICK FOG Sennen Cove, Cornwall. At 12.6 pjn.
on Friday the 13th September, 1963, the St. Just coastguard reported that a vessel was aground at Portheras Cove and the services of the life-boat might be...
The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Panama
Heavy seas and poor conditions as D class saves threeA service by Port Talbot's D class inshore lifeboat in difficult conditions has led to the award of the Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum to crew member Robert Harris. The...
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Swanson, of Longhope, in the Orkneys. He has been coxswain since 1900, and during the thirty-three years of his coxswainship the Longhope station has rescued fifty-four lives from shipwreck. He...
Category: Articles
The Duchess of Kent at Ramsgate and Broadstairs
THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, visited Ramsgate and Broadstairs .on the 19th of May. At Ramsgate she opened and named the new landing stage and laid the foundation stone of the extension of the out patient department of...
Category: Articles
Commodore The Right Hon. The Earl Howe, P.C., C.B.E., V.R.D., R.N.V.R.
Earl Howe, who died on 26th July, 1964, at the age of 80, was actively associated with the Royal National Life-boat Institution for 45 years. He first joined the Committee of Management in 1919 and was elected a Vice-President in...
Category: Obituaries
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was laid out in 1933.
£ s. d.
59 0 6 ••• • •• •••• ••• •• ••i B Construction, Repairs, Upkeep and Inspection of Life-boats and Life-...
Category: Accounts