LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
MILLION, CORNWALL.—The Institution has formed a life-boat establishment at Mullion Cove, several wrecks, with loss of life, haying recently occurred in the locality.
The boat is 33 feet long, and rows 10 oars double-banked...
Category: Articles
Gold Mist
Dover, Kent.—At 2.28 early on the morning of the 12th of July, 1957, the Lloyds signal station reported that a yacht was drifting off South Foreland.
At 2.40 the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3). on temporary...
Diesel Engines In Life-Boats
THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...
Category: Articles
Letters
Letters...
tion by the Institution, i.e. medals, vellums and letters of thanks, but when there is extra space we will always try to include additional stories.
Unsung praises I refer to the News Point on...
Category: Correspondence
Contents
RNLI News What's happening in and around the Institution Lifeboat Services Including Bronze medal and Vellum services In Conference Edward Wake-Walker at the 16th International Lifeboat Conference in Oslo Naming Ceremonies New...
Category: Committee
Aberdeen: Coxswain Albert Bird Accepting North Sea Rum from W Massie Area Sales Manager Mackinlay-Mcpherson Ltd on Board the 54Ft Arun Bp Forties Last Fe
Aberdeen: Coxswain Albert Bird accepting North Sea rum from W.
Massie, area sales manager, MacKinlay-McPherson Ltd, on board the 54ft Arun BP Forties last February. Front row (I. to r.): Rear Admiral J. R. D. Nunn, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helmsman Ian Mcdowell of the St. Bees Atlantic 21 Lifeboat,
Helmsman Ian McDowell of the St.
Bees Atlantic 21 lifeboat, joined the crew in 1975.
He was awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal for his leadership, skill and courage when the St. Bees' C class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Schesaplana
Capsized motor cruiser THE DUTY COASTGUARD on watch in the lookout of Solent MRSC on the spring bankholiday Monday, May 25, reported at 1256 that a vessel had capsized in the vicinity of the Shingles Bank Elbow Buoy at the western approaches...
A Mid-Winter Service
By Major-General the Rt. Hon. John E. Bernard Seeley, C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O.
[Major-General Seely has been a Member of the Committee of Management of the Institution for over twenty-eight years.
He has...
Category: Services
Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore
A Nimrod jet aircraft of No. 201 Squadron,R.A.F. Strike Command, committed the ashes of the late Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Murray Longmore, G.C.B., D.S.O., a former member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., to the sea in Alum...
Category: Obituaries