LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Late Mr. Charles Clifford
THE gentle CHARLES CLIFFORD, who, after years of severe suffering, passed away a short time since, deserves a few words in service on occasions when life-boats unassisted | the great value of his invention for Lowering " 'The...
Category: Obituaries
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
SINCE the issue of the Parliamentary Report last July, which stated that the charges of mismanagement brought against the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION with regard to the Life-boat Saturday Fund were " entirely without...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 10th November, 1938.
Sir GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contributions:—• Mr. C. V. Thomas, C.A. . . 1,500 0 0 R.N.D. . . ...
Category: Committee
The Parsons Engineering Co. Limited
19 O*J FIT FOR A 'QUEEN'S' LIFEBOA Tand the R.N.L.I.
R.N.LI. 41ft. Walson lype lifeboat with two Parsons 'Porb&agles' installed.
The PARSONS 'PORBEAGLE' is a 4-cytinder...
Category: Advertisement
The Machinery Is Completely Water-Tight and the Tractor Can Be Submerged Up to the Top of the Air-Intake and Exhaust Pipes, and the Driver's Neck
The Machinery Is Completely Water-Tight and The Tractor Can Be Submerged Up To The Top of the Air-Intake and Exhaust Pipes and The Driver's Neck This Stern View Shows The Capstan By W. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr Raymond Baxter the Well Known BBC's Personality Signing Autographs at the Spring Fair Organised By the Rugby Branch of the RNLI at the Benn Memorial Hall
Mr. Raymond Baxter, the well known B.B.C.'s personality, signing autographs at the Spring Fair organised by the Rugby branch of the R.N.L.I. at the Benn Memorial Hall, Rugby, on 15th April, 1972, when £1,504 was raised.
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Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Enthusiasts' Society
The idea of forming a society to cater for those with technical or historical interests in the life-boat service was suggested by Mr. JohnG. Francis in the early summer of last year. A letter from Mr. Francis on the subject in the June 1964...
Category: Articles
The Cross Channel Ferry Purbeck
Sick man aboard ferry AT 1300 on the afternoon of Thursday October 4, 1984, Poole's 33ft Brede class lifeboat. Inner Wheel, launched on service after the cross channel ferry, Purbeck, reported she had a man aboard with severe abdominal...
The Barges Asphodel and Kitty
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported that a barge was making signals of distress three miles east-north-east of the point. The motor life-boat Greater London, Civil...
The Passenger Ferry European Highlander
Grounded ferry Girvan's all weather lifeboat launched in gale force winds to assist the grounded passenger ferry European Highlander on 8 January 2005. Second Coxswain Dave Butcher commented: 'I have never experienced such hostile...