LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Isolating Box As Well As the Control Panel and the Batteries Are Made Watertight and Tested Before Being Fitted Into the Console By the Electricians
The isolating box, as well as the control panel and the batteries, are made watertight and tested before being fitted into the console by the electricians. - View image in PDF
Photo Bob Kennovin.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
Dr. TROLLOPE, of Hastings, has forwarded the following interesting communication, in reply to a request from the Committee of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, on a case of drowning which he successfully treated on the MARSHALL HALL method...
Category: Correspondence
(Top) Malcolm Grant (Centre Left), the Winner of the Volvo In the RNLI's 60th National Lottery
(Top) Malcolm Grant (centre left), the winner of the Volvo in the RNLI's 60th national lottery with his wife Margaret (centre right) at the handing over ceremony in Cardiff. Photo Barry Webb (Above) Comedian Billy Burden draws the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Princess Alexandra Meets the Margate Lifeboat Crew In the Company of the Chairman Michael Vernon.
Princess Alexandra meets the Margate lifeboat crew in the company of the Chairman Michael Vernon. A proud day for all concerned - especially as the Princess had been prevented from naming the Margate lifeboat on a previous occasion planned... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The United States Troopship Upshur
SICK MAN LANDED FROM U.S.
TROOPSHIP Penlee, Cornwall. At 9.30 a.m. on Wednesday the 21st of August, 1963, the second coxswain received a telephone message from the honorary secretary that the United States troopship Upshur,...
The Ex-Mine-Layer Medea
JAN. 23RD. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
On the same day on which the St. Ives motor life-boat was wrecked, the motor life-boat Princess Mary, at Padstow, Cornwall, was damaged on service. She is the heaviest lifeboat in the...
The Sailing Boat Margaret Elizabeth
AUGUST 10TH. - BEAUMARIS, ANGLESEY.
At 8.29 in the evening the Penmon coastguard reported that the sailing boat Margaret Elizabeth was in difficulties in the East Channel off Puffin Island. At 8.45 a further report came...
The Help of Golf Clubs
DURING 1937 sixty-six golf clubs held competitions in aid of the life-boat service and contributed £222 6*. 6d- Two more clubs held the competition than in 1936, and £25 more was contributed. The same appeal has been made...
Category: Articles
The Open Motor Coble Lily
APRIL 7TH. - BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE.
At 10.37 A.M. , the coastguard reported that a coble was in difficulties off Ulrome, eight miles south of Bridlington, and that she had put up a sail which had been blown away. The...
64 YEARS WITH THE QUEEN
Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI, believed that sea rescue was ‘a cause which extends from the palace to the cottage ... and which addresses itself with equal force to all the best feelings of every class in the state.’ So began our... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs