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Launching By Haul-Off Warp

Date: September 1933

Volume: 29

Issue: 315

The Haul-off Warp is used at nineteen stations, where the life-boats are launched off the open beach. It is a very effective method of getting the life-boat through the inshore breakers which might otherwise knock her back on the... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

37' 6" Rather Class Lifeboat a Development of the 37' Oakley Redesigned So That Self-Righting Potential Is Derived Entirely from Hull Form Volume of Superstructure Is Sub

Date: Spring 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 448

37' 6" Rather class lifeboat, a development of the 37' Oakley redesigned so that self-righting potential is derived entirely from hull form. Volume of superstructure is substantially increased to give buoyancy necessary to right... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck

Date: April 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 52

Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.

(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...

Category: Advertisement

(Right) One of 20 Lifeboat Models Made By Jeff Morris and Used In a Number of Displays and Fund-Raising Events In the Coventry Area on Sunday January 30 the Mo

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

(Right) One of 20 lifeboat models made by Jeff Morris and used in a number of displays and fund-raising events in the Coventry area.

On Sunday, January 30, the models farmed the focal point of a lifeboat service at Radford... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Congregation Gathered Round Model of Lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse After the Service of Thanksgiving at Mutley Baptist Church Plymouth Photograph B

Date: Spring 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 448

Congregation gathered round model of lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse after the service of thanksgiving at Mutley Baptist Church, Plymouth. Photograph by courtesy of 'Western Morning News'. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

(Right) the Rnli Is Controlled By a Committee of Management Formed of Distinguished Public Figures Who Give Their Services Voluntarily They Have Specialised Knowle

Date: Spring 1974

Volume: 43

Issue: 448

(Right) The RNLI is controlled by a Committee of Management, formed of distinguished public figures who give their services voluntarily. They have specialised knowledge and experience to offer in a variety of fields.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Coxswain/Mechanic Ralston of Mallaig Receives His Bronze Medal for the Service to the Fishing Vessel Galilean from Countess Mountbatten of Burma at the 1989 Presentat

Date: Spring 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 508

Coxswain/Mechanic Ralston of Mallaig receives his Bronze medal for the service to the fishing vessel Galilean from Countess Mountbatten of Burma at the 1989 presentation of awards ceremony.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

A Large Steamer

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

APRIL 6TH. - BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT. A message was received at 7.50 in the morning from the Foreland coastguard that a large steamer was sinking six miles to the south-south-east and that a destroyer was in the neighbourhood. There was a...