LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Henrietta
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT TORBAY DEC. 16TH. - TORBAY, AND SALCOMBE, DEVON. In the early afternoon the schooner Henrietta, of Truro, with a crew of seven men, was carried by the strong spring tides and a gale from the east-north-east to the...
Portrait on the Cover
THE photograph on the cover is of Coxswain Frederick Palmer of Wey- mouth, who first joined the Weymouth crew in 1926. Since then Weymouth life-boats have been launched on service 240 times and have rescued 180 lives.
He...
Category: Articles
The Communications Equipment Fitted to the Prototype Severn Class. the Left Hand Control Panel Is the Mf Radio, With the Vhp Radio Third from the Left
The communications equipment fitted to the prototype Severn class. The left hand control panel is the MF radio, with the VHP radio third from the left. The remaining two panels are for an automated distress system operating on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notice to Subscribers
IT was stated in the first Number of this Journal, that it would be published monthly, or occasionally, as circumstances might point out, and that it would be sold at the lowest possible price that would cover the expense of paper and...
Category: Articles
Meetings of Committee
llth Nov. GEORGE PALMER, Esq., V.P,, in the Chair.
CONFIRMED Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Ordered the sale of 2001. Exchequer Bills, to...
Category: Committee
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHPORT.—In accordance with the wishes of the crew a second Life-boat has been placed at this station. It is a large sailing boat, 42 feet long, and 13£ feet wide, and is constructed, in conformity with the views of a special...
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International Conference on the World's Life-Boat Service
The Presentation of Gold Medals and Addresses of Congratulation to the Institution.
AN International Conference on the World's Life-boat Service was held, in connexion with the Centenary of the Institution, on 1st and...
Category: Meetings
Lifesavers honored
Three lifeboat volunteers from Port Isaac, Cornwall (pictured, above), will be awarded RNLI Medals for Gallantry, after saving a man’s life on 8 April.
Helm Damien Bolton will receive the Silver Medal, while Crew Members...
Category: Articles
"Catherine Booth." The Salvation Army's Life-Boat on the Coast of Norway
The following article has been written for The Lifeboat by an officer in the Salvation Army, while, the note attached to it gives some general particulars about the Norwegian Life-boat Service, which we haw received from its...
Category: Articles
A Noted Badge
DURING a recent visit to Scotland Yard to discuss future flag-day arrangements with the police, the district organising secretary for Greater London asked the inspector what he thought of the Institution's emblem, as there had been...
Category: Articles