LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Raft
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 5.46 on the afternoon of the 28th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the police had reported two boys adrift on a raft in the River Medway between Isle of Grain and All Hallows. The life-boat Greater...
Mr. William Potter, Late Assistant Surveyor of Life-Boats
Mr. William Potter, at one time Assistant Surveyor of Life-boats, died on 4th May last, at the age of ninety- four. The son of a dockyard shipwright, he was born in 1831, was apprenticed as a shipwright at Woolwich. Dockyard, and was later...
Category: Obituaries
Lists of Contributors to the Branches of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Category: Services
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals
H.R.H. The Duchess of Gloucester Presents a Bronze Medal
HRH The Duchess of Gloucester Presents A Bronze Medal The Recipient Is Coxswain Roland Moore of Barrow. - View image in PDF
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From the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales
IN March Mr. N. V. Wade, the honorary treasurer of the Shiplovers' Society of New South Wales, wrote to the Institution to say that there were Shiplovers' Societies not only in London and Bristol, but in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide...
Category: Correspondence
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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Deck Plan.
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Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air...
Category: Articles
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G., at Blackpool
At the naming ceremony of the new motor life-boat. With the Duke are the Mayor and Alderman. Tatham,. Honorary Secretary of the Station.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs