LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Diesel Engines In Life-Boats
THE problem of finding the ideal method of providing a life-boat with mechanical power has occupied the minds of de- signers and engineers for more than a century. For many years experiments were made with steam. At the Great Exhibition of...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains, crews and shore helpers
Awards to Coxswains, crews and shore helpers The following coxswains, members of lifeboat crews and shore helpers were awarded certificates of service on their retirement. Those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations were also...
Category: Awards
Boy Sam
St. Ives, Cornwall.—On the 16th August, 1938, the motor life-boat John and Sarah Eliza Stych was on passage from St. Ives to Falmouth for overhaul.
A strong W.N.W. breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. As the life-boat...
Gold Mist
Dover, Kent.—At 2.28 early on the morning of the 12th of July, 1957, the Lloyds signal station reported that a yacht was drifting off South Foreland.
At 2.40 the life-boat Greater London (Civil Service No. 3). on temporary...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Tallon of Clogher Head. He was appointed bowman in 1933, became second coxswain in 1938 and has been coxswain since 1946. During his service as a boat's officer Clogher Head life- boats...
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High Seas...
The photographer, Hunting Aerofilms, is offering copies of these photographs to readers of THE LIFEBOAT at well below normal rates - and is also making a donation of 25% of the price of each print to the RNLI.
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Charis (1)
Baltimore and Courtmacsherry, Co.
Cork.—At 1.30 on the afternoon of the 8th of July, 1956, the Garda at Castle- townshend telephoned that the local yacht Charis had put out the day before and had not returned. At two...
Helmsman Ian Mcdowell of the St. Bees Atlantic 21 Lifeboat,
Helmsman Ian McDowell of the St.
Bees Atlantic 21 lifeboat, joined the crew in 1975.
He was awarded the Institution's Bronze Medal for his leadership, skill and courage when the St. Bees' C class... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Listings
Naming ceremoniesAlec and Christina Dykes atTorbay More than 350 guests attended the ceremony for Devon's first Severn class lifeboat. The lifeboat was received on behalf of the RNLI by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston CBE RD and named by Torbay...
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Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Fifth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institution was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Wednesday, 17th April, at 3 p.m.
Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Committee of Management,...
Category: Meetings