LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fig 6: Brian Augustus Inspects Antibounce Device In Control Box Weighted Gravity Sensitive Lever Can Be Seen In Centre Pressure Gauge on Top Left and a Tube of Silica Gel C
Fig. 6: Brian Augustus inspects antibounce device in control box. Weighted gravity sensitive lever can be seen in centre, pressure gauge on top left and a tube of silica gel crystals (to ensure there is no moisture in this watertight box)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Souris
YACHT AGROUND At 4.55 p.m. on 3rd April, 1966, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a yacht had been reported to be aground on the Pye Sands, about half a mile outside the mouth of the river. The honorary secretary then telephoned...
New Scarborough Life-Boat Named
THE first life-boat of the Oakley class was named J. G. Graves of Sheffield at a ceremony at the Scarborough lifeboathouse on the 11th of June, 1959.
The life-boat was a gift of the J. G. Graves Charitable Trust, and Mrs....
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat People
Surely the oldest ladies' guild member must be Miss Violet Oswald. One of thebest loved members of Dunoon and District guild, she reached the age of 103 on October 12, 1974. At the annual general meeting at Dunoon last year she was...
Category: Articles
Awards to Honorary Workers
Honorary Life-Cover nor.
Mr. J. M. MAWSON, J.P., has been appointed an Honorary Life-Governor of the Insti- tution in recognition of the valuable services which he rendered as Honorary Secretary of the Piel (Barrow) Station...
Category: Awards
Touring Rnli Depot and Headquarters at Poole on October 7 Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution Is Shown the Rigging Loft (Above Left) By Joe Salmon and Watches Len Wlodek At
Touring RNLI depot and headquarters at Poole on October 7, HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, is shown the rigging loft (above left) by Joe Salmon and watches Len Wlodek at work on a coir how fender. He inspected a propeller... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 8th OCTOBER, 1908.
Sir JOHN CAMERON LAMB, C.B., O.M.G., in the Chair.
Colonel Fitzroy CLAYTON, V.P., who for the last twenty-five years had been the Deputy Chairman, was unanimously appointed...
Category: Committee
Radar Is Being Fitted to More and More R.N.L.I. Boats and In the Top Picture Coxswain James Turpin, of the Fowey, Cornwall, Life-Boat Deneys Reitz, Which Was Built In 1954, Is Shown Operating Th
Radar is being fitted to more and more R.N.L.I. boats and in the top picture Coxswain James Turpin, of the Fowey, Cornwall, life-boat Deneys Reitz, which was built in 1954, is shown operating the Decca 050 display.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) the Rnli Is Supported Entirely By Money Which People Give of Their Own Free Choice Much of It Is Raised By Branches and Guilds Throughout the Country and On
(Above) The RNLI is supported entirely by money which people give of their own free choice. Much of it is raised by branches and guilds throughout the country and one source of income is from lifeboat flag days.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Nigerian Fish-Factory Ship Azu
Lifeboat rescues 33 crew from grounded ship in gales and darkness A difficult service in very poor conditions in which 33 seamen were taken off grounded fish factory ship has led to Coxswain Mechanic Hewitt Clark of Lerwick lifeboat station...