LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CROMER, NORFOLK.—On the 1st March a N.E. gale was blowing with squalls of hail and snow. At about 6.30 P.M.
signals of distress were seen from the barque Lodore, of Liverpool, which was at anchor about four miles off. The...
Category: Services
Drawings of the Life-Boats and Life-Boat Carriages Adopted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FIVE years' experience by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION of the new class of life-boats, designed by JAMES PEAKE, Esq., of Her Majesty's Dock-yard, Woolwich, and elicited by the prize of 100 guineas given by His Grace the Duke of...
Category: Articles
Cover Picture
Launch! The Lizard-Cadgwith lifeboat, The Duke of Cornwall (Civil Service No. 33), a 52' Barnett housed slipway boat built in 1960, was named by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh on July 7, 1961. She has launched on service 56 times and saved 58... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rescue By a Grimsby Trawler
THE Institution has presented its Thanks inscribed on Vellum to be hung on board the steam trawler Cuirass, of Grimsby, an inscribed Binocular Glass to the skipper, Mr. W. Brewster, and a monetary reward to each member of his crew for their...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
West Division Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Moelfre lifeboat station was informed by Holyhead Coastguard at 0845 on Sunday September 21, 1980, that the yacht July Morn had reported that she was in difficulties, her rudder broken,...
Category: Services
Should I Bring an Umbrella?
‘Should I Bring an Umbrella?’
Celebrating weather in photographs
By Alan Johnston
Review by Tim Corke
Alan Johnston’s personal portfolio of photographs captures the...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Classified
LIFEBOAT CLASSIFIED FOR PERSONAL SERVICE Contact the Company with nearly forty years' experience in the manufacture of 1 CLUB & COMPANY TIES Quantities from one dozen with printed motif, five dozen with woven motif, striped ties from...
Category: Advertisement
Fig4: and Stowed on One Side Edian Courtauld Her Decks Stripped for Action Was at Cardnell Brothers for Partial Survey Her New Air Bag Has Already Been Fitted to Her
Fig. 5: New sacrificial anodes are fitted to afloat boats each year. The wastage caused by electrolytic action can be seen by comparing new anode with old one just taken off Edian Courtauld: Ji/6 of metal had been eroded in twelve months at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual Meeting
THE Hundred and Sixth Annual General Meeting of the Governors of the Institu- tion was held at the Caxton Hall, West- minster, on Monday, 7th April, at 3 p.m.
The feature of the meeting was the presence of Coxswains from...
Category: Meetings
A Powerboat Rescue By Ray Bulman
WHILE its popularity rise has not been quite so obvious when compared with the pleasure boating explosion as a whole, offshore powerboat racing today has a very strong coastwise following with events held every summer weekend at different...
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