LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
It Is Not Often That a Champion Fighter Pilot Asks to Look Round One of Our Life-Boats. In This Picture, Taken Some Time Ago, But Only Recently Made Available to the Life-Boat, Group Captain Dougl
It is not often that a champion fighter pilot asks to look round one of our life-boats. In this picture, taken some time ago, but only recently made available to THE LIFE-BOAT, Group Captain Douglas Bader, C.B.E., D.S.O., D.F.C., the legless... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Internal Combustion Petrol Engine Was First Used to Convert Sailing and Pulling Lifeboats to Motor One of the First Purpose designed Motor Lifeboats Was John a Hay a 42Ft Self-Righter Built In 1
The internal combustion petrol engine was first used to convert sailing and pulling lifeboats to motor. One of the first purposedesigned motor lifeboats was John A. Hay. a 42ft self-righter built in 1908 and stationed at Stromness. She was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Enthusiasts' Society Is Interested In the Past and the Present. This Fine Photograph, Typical of the Kind of Pictures Which Members Bring to Light, Shows the Dickinson Edleston Life-Bo
The Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society is interested in the past and the present. This fine photograph, typical of the kind of pictures which members bring to light, shows the Dickinson Edleston life-boat which was stationed at Longhope,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
H.M. Trawler Marjory Hastie
FEBRUARY 20TH. - TYNEMOUTH, AND CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.13 in the morning the honorary secretary at Tynemouth had a telephone call from the Port War Signal Station that one of H.M. trawlers had struck a mine...
Thoughts on the Art of Street Collecting By Clive Porter Second Coxswain Teesmouth Life-Boat
THERE is an art in most things, and carrying a collecting tin for the R.N.L.I.
can be of great interest. Nothing could be more absorbing than spending a day in the street persuading the public that our cause is worth...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Appeal
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(.Incorporated by Royal Charter.) Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President—ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF...
Category: Advertisement
H.M. Coastguard's Busy Year
IN the past year H.M. Coastguard has taken part in about 750 incidents round the coasts of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Some were dangerous and spectacular, others were minor cliff rescues. They ranged from the recovery of a St....
Category: Services
Anne, of Plymouth
On the 14th September, the brig Anne, f Plymouth, and the schooner Betsey, of Peterhead, during a heavy gale from the S.W., were compelled to anchor in an unsafe position near Holy head; on the 15th, the wind shifting, they dragged their...
Women's Work from Page 197
Debbie Stewart, now in the Aberystwyth ILB crew, originally trained at Atlantic College where there are six girls on the crew. Jeanne O'Gorman is an instructor at the Outward Bound School at Aberdovey where the village and school each...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS.
SINCE the " Centenary Celebrations " Number of The Lifeboat appeared in November last a number of other cele- brations have been held.
Cumberland.
A...
Category: Branches