LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cadets Pull It Off!
Edinburgh Beatty Sea Cadet Unit have for many years been energetic fund raisers on behalf of the RNLI in Scotland.
Last year they undertook a sponsored boat pull in their ASC class dinghy along the full 22 miles of Loch... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Relief Shows on the Face of a Russian Seaman As He Is Helped Ashore at Lerwick.
(Right) Relief shows on the face of a Russian seaman as he is helped ashore at Lerwick.. - View image in PDF
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Aerial View of a 52' Barnett ? No a Close-Up Detail of a Working Model Made By R Sellwood of Reading and District Branch It Took 3000 Hours to Build
Aerial view of a 52' Barnett ? No, a close-up detail of a working model made by R.
Sellwood of Reading and District branch. It took 3,000 hours to build and is used to raise funds, both at shows and in the Reading... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Belt Used By the Crew of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
1974: (Below) Leaving St.Paul's Cathedral After the Institution's 150th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication With Sir Hugh Wontner Lord Mayor of London
1974: (below) . . . leaving St Paul's Cathedral after the Institution's 150th anniversary service of thanksgiving and dedication with Sir Hugh Wontner, Lord Mayor of London.. - View image in PDF
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas William Read, of Rams- gate, who retired last year. He was appointed second coxswain about 1915, when the station was administered by the Board of Trade, and in 1924, two years after the...
Category: Articles
Every Christmas Artist John Lee a Great Supporter of Weymouth Lifeboat Auctions One of His Paintings to Raise Funds For
Every Christmas artist John Lee, a great supporter of Weymouth lifeboat, auctions one of his paintings to raise funds for the RNLI; in the past few years £680 has been raised in this way. Last Christmas an oil painting ofWeymouth's... - View image in PDF
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In the Early Days of Sir Godfrey Baring's Chairmanship the Motor Car Was Still Something of a Novelty. This Rolls-Royce—It Appears to Be a New Phantom I of 1925-1929—Was Pictured Outside Th
In the early days of Sir Godfrey Baring's chairmanship the motor car was still something of a novelty. This Rolls-Royce—it appears to be a New Phantom I of 1925-1929—was pictured outside the old headquarters of the R.N.LI, in Charing...
Category: Articles
The Advent of the Boat Show Means Eleven Happy Days of Reunions With Old and Introduction to New Friends of the Lifeboat Service Who Come to the Rnli Stand Cilia Black
The advent of the Boat Show means eleven happy days of reunions with old and introduction to new friends of the lifeboat service who come to the RNLI stand. Cilia Black was one of many welcome visitors, and to show her over Silver Jubilee... - View image in PDF
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The American Steamer Park Holland, of Portland, Maine (2)
MARCH 25TH. - STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES, CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE, AND BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. At 6.45 in the morning the coastguard reported to the Stornoway life-boat station that a steamer was ashore three-quarters of a mile south of Glas...