LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Foreign Life-Boat Stations
As in the general course of commerce in Europe, British vessels visit every part of the narrow seas, and especially the Kattegat and the Baltic (seeing that of the 15,000 vessels that annually pass the Sound up and down, fully one quarter...
Category: Articles
The RNLI looks at the year's work and the future: 97,000 lives saved since 1824 continued from page 16
MR JOHN GRAY, CBE Belfast branch committee member, 1947; and Belfast branch chairman since 1969.
Mr Gray is a businassman in the export field, who gives a most able lead to this successful branch's fund raising, and in...
Category: Meetings
The Guided Missile Destroyer U.S.S. Sellers (1)
Eleven rescued ON THE MORNING OF Monday, November 1, 1976, the uss Sellers, a guided missile destroyer, arrived in Jersey waters to pay a courtesy visit. It was originally intended that she should anchor in St Aubin's Bay but as the wind...
Shetland Life-Boat on View In London
THE new life-boat being built for Aith, Shetland Islands, will be exhibited at the International Boat Show, sponsored by the Daily Express, at Earls Court in London, from the 4th to the 14th of January, 1961. Space to exhibit this boat has...
Category: Articles
Launch of the Worthing Life-Boat for Testing the Use of Oil In a Rough Sea
LAUNCH OF THE WORTHING LIFE-BOAT FOR TESTING THE USE OF OIL IN A ROUGH SEA.
It will be remembered that oil was used with great effect in the service to the "Rohilla" in November, ... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Boys Snatched from Block
LETTERS of appreciation signed by the Secretary of the R.N.L.I., Captain Nigel Dixon, R.N., have been sent to the crew of the Eastney, Hampshire, IRB, Mr. J. Fletcher and Mr. R. Faro, for the rescue of two boys who were marooned off Southsea...
Category: Services
A New Civil Service Life-Boat
A NEW motor life-boat, the gift of the Civil Service Life-boat Fund, has been completed this year and stationed at Walmer, Kent. There are now six motor life-boats on the coast built out of the Fund—three on the English coast, at Walmer and...
Category: Inaugurations
All In a Day's Work
How does a volunteer lifeboat crew member find the time to juggle their work and personal life with their lifeboat duties - and why? Jon Jones spent some time on the Isle of Wight with Bembridge coxswain Martin Woodward to try to get some...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXV.-ST. MARY'S, SCILLY ISLES.
The Henry Dundas, 37 feet long, 9 feet beam, 10 oars.
THIS Life-boat was stationed at St. Mary's, the capital of the Scilly Isles, in 1874. Previous to that time it...
Category: Articles
Loss of Life from Shipwreck on Our Coasts
CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...
Category: Articles