LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Norwegian Honour for the Institution
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., Chairman of organizathe Committee of Management, and Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution, have each been presented by H.M. the King of Norway with the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Life-boat Society...
Category: Awards
The Chief Rabbi's Appeal for the Life-Boat Service
THE Institution has received a personal letter from the Very Rev. the Chief Rabbi, Dr. J. H. Hertz, Ph.D., ex- pressing the hope that the Jews of Great Britain will respond generously to the appeal of the life-boat service.
Category: Correspondence
Updating Information on the Stateboard Movements of Head Office Officials Divisional Inspectors and Other Coast Staff Are Kept Readily Available on Pegboard (R)
Updating information on the stateboard. Movements of head office officials, divisional inspectors and other coast staff are kept readily available on pegboard (r.).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Saving on the Shannon
THE Republic of Ireland's river Shannon, longest in these off-Europe islands, and, with its many lakes and tributary Grand Canal and river Barrow making it probably one of the largest single connected waterways in Europe, is becoming...
Category: Articles
Two Young School Girls Claire Durbin and Claire Wates Organised a Sponsored Swim on Behalf of the Rnli In the Swimming Pool of Button High School All Ten of The
Two young school girls, Claire Durbin and Claire Wates, organised a sponsored swim on behalf of the RNLI in the swimming pool of Button High School. All ten of the 10-year-old girls taking part completed the maximum half mile, and between... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Below: the Breakwater at Aith
Below: The breakwater at Aith giving shelter to the station's Arun class.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Ferry Nordic Ferry (2)
Ferry fire puts all emergency services on alert at Harwich Harwich, Walton andFrinton and Aldeburgh East and South East Divisions Four lifeboats, three helicopters, three tugs and a harbour launch were despatched to the passenger and cargo...
The Motor Sand Barge Tony
DRIFTING SAND BARGE TAKEN IN TOW The Mumbles, Glamorganshire. At 12.20 on the morning of the 31st March, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor sand barge Tony of Hull had broken adrift with one man on board...
Royal Blue to the Rescue
THE following report is reproduced from Stage Coach, the magazine of General Western National, Royal Blue, Devon and Greenslades coaches.
'To be able to answer an urgent call for assistance from an organisation which is...
Category: Correspondence
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
(See Diagram* on next page.) The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
Category: Articles