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The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
Category: Articles
Gallant and Successful Rescue of a Shipwrecked Crew By a Student
WE think the following interesting account of an extraordinary and a gallant act, on the part of a student of divinity, in rescuing a shipwrecked crew is deserving of a record in the pages of the Life-boat Journal:-— We extract it from Dr....
Category: Articles
"S.O.S.": A Life-Boat Duologue
By Commander Stopford C. Douglas, R.N., Deputy-Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
Broadcast by Sir Gerald du Maurier and Miss Mabel Terry-Lewis.
[This duologue was broadcast by the British Broadcasting...
Category: Articles
Notes and News
LIFE-BOAT DAY was held throughout the area of Greater London on 2nd May, and a gross sum of about £2,514 was raised. A number of separate Days were held in different parts of London in 1920 and 1921, but this is the first Greater London...
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In Memory of the Life-Boats at Dunkirk
THE Institution has received over £9 from brother officers and friends of the late Major Charles Lawless Saunders, R.A.S.C. Those gifts were sent, in place of flowers for his funeral, at his own request, in gratitude to the Life-boat...
Category: Donations
Grace Darling's Coble. A Permanent Home at Bamburgh
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 90 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 104 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to 27th November, 1930 62,443 Grace Darling's Coble.
A...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Meriones
JANUARY 25TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
In the early morning of the 22nd January,the S.S. Meriones, of Liverpool, stranded on the Haisborough Sands three-quarters of a mile east by north of the South Middle Haisborough Buoy. She...
The Life-Boat Service. Its Payments at a Glance, Its Receipts at a Glance
ITS PAYMENTS AT A GLANCE How each £100 of the Institution's Payments was made in 1957 £ s. d.
30 2 5 —" —- New Construction.
34 19 5 mam m m*~ —m Maintenance of Lifeboats and...
Category: Accounts
Exercise With the Rocket Apparatus at a Danish Station
Exercise With The Rocket Apparatus at A Danish Station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Volunteers At Lymington Making Full Use Of Their New Boathouse
Volunteers at Lymington making full use of their new boathouse . - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs