LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Gustav Bitter
POLPEAR (LIZARD) AND CADGWITH.— On the morning of the 4th March the s.s. Gustav Bitter, of Newcastle-on-Tyne while proceeding from London to the Manchester Ship Canal with a general cargo, stranded on the Callidges Rocks, off the Lizard...
New Life-Boats
AYR, SCOTLAND.—The Life-boat at this station has been replaced by a new one of the Liverpool type, 35 ft. long by 10 ft. wide, rowing 12 oars and fitted with 2 drop keels. Like her predecessor she is named the Janet Hoyle, as desired by the...
Category: Inaugurations
A Hundred Years Ago
Extract from The Life-boat dated the 1st of October, 1858 Meetings of the Committee Thursday, 1st July, 1858. Thomas Chapman Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
The Committee voted their thanks to the London, Brighton and...
Category: Articles
(Below) Mrs Susan Hunter-Pease Wife of Mr Charles Hunter-Pease the Sates and Marketing Director of Volvo Concessionaires
(below) Mrs Susan Hunter-Pease, wife of Mr Charles Hunter-Pease, the Sates and Marketing Director of Volvo Concessionaires, names the new Mersey Class lifeboat Lifetime Care at a ceremony at the RNLI's Poole depot. The lifeboat is the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 1st June, 1882.
THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., Chair- man of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the pre- vious meeting, and those of the Finance and...
Category: Committee
Wreck Chart for 1852
WITH the present Number of the Life- Boat Journal we present our readers with a Wreck Chart of the British Isles, showing all the casualties to shipping which occurred in the seas and on the shores of the United Kingdom in the year 1852,...
Category: Charts
Four New Scottish Life-Boats Named
DURING the month of August, 1961, no fewer than four new life-boats were named in Scotland. The ceremonies took place at Aith on the 2nd August, at Whitehills on the 12th August, at Port- patrick on the 16th August, and at Buckie on the 26th...
Category: Inaugurations
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Tkefigwa refer to the number* of the Life-boaa OetaUet on pages 42-B3.) A Friend, per Pembroke Denman, Hon. Mrs. Jos., 152. Jacomb-Hood, Miss E. H., Roberts, Mr. W., the late,...
Category: Donations
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
(Right) the Grp Hull Is Stiffened With Frames (18" Maximum Centres) and Longitudinals Constructed of Foam Formers Over-Laminated With Chopped Glass Mat, Unidirectio
(Right) The GRP hull is stiffened with frames (18" maximum centres) and longitudinals constructed of foam formers over-laminated with chopped glass mat, unidirectional tape and resin.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs