LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prince of Wales' Day In London
PRINCE OF WALES' DAY throughout Greater London was held on 8th May, and the chief feature of the day, and a great factor in the success of the appeal, was the personal visits which the Prince of Wales paid to depots in the East and South...
Category: Articles
An Australian Motor Life-Boat In Action
This boat stationed at Queenscliff, Victoria, was built at Port Adelaide in 1926, after designs of the Institution, and her engines and fittings were supplied by the Institution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Torrocks II
Selsey, Sussex - At 7.30 p.m. on 14th August, 1967, the coastguard reported that a yacht, which had been under observation in Love Channel, had turned north instead of continuing on course for Portsmouth or Chichester harbour, and was now...
Landlubber In the Life-Boat
The following article appeared in the Norwich Mercury of llth April, 1968, and is repro- duced by courtesy of the Editor Who, reading this, has not at some time or other rushed down to the beach at the sound of the maroons calling out the...
Category: Articles
Rescue In a Gale Near the Harbour Bar
ON the morning of the 15th of April, 1954, the weather at Whitby, which was already bad, became steadily worse. The local fishing fleet was at sea, and at 9.30 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched.
Ex-Coxswain...
Category: Services
Income and Expenditure In 1939.
Expenditure in 1939 was £384,373. Income was £284,152. That is to say that there was a deficit for the year of over £100,000. Moreover income had fallen by over £65,000. That is a serious decline, but in presenting the...
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Summary of Services in 1963
SUMMARY OF SERVICES IN 1963 Number of times life-boats called out on service Number of times inshore rescue boats called out on service Number of lives saved by life-boats Number of lives saved by inshore rescue boats Number of lives saved...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Days In 1949
IN 1949 the Institution held 905 flag days. The number of people who gave was 6,500,000, and the sum given was £83,549.
That was forty-six more days than in 1948, but the number who gave fell by nearly 654,000 and...
Category: Articles
In Brilliant Sunshine Dunbar Lifeboat
In brilliant sunshine, Dunbar lifeboat fete, held at the harbour on Saturday July 24, raised more than £6,700—a marvellous result exceeding the 1981 total by about £1,000. The Lifeboat Queen, Margaret-Ann Brunton, accompanied by... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
IN THE AUTUMN issue we published two pictures illustrating lifeboat propeller tunnel construction.
Here to round off the story is a photograph of the same detail in a completed 48' 6" Solent slipway lifeboat. Note...
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