LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Air Bags Which When Inflated Will Initiate Righting Are Fitted to Atlantic 21 Ilbs (Right Above) and to Watson and Barnett Lifeboats (Right)
Air bags which, when inflated, will initiate righting are fitted to Atlantic 21 ILBs (right above), and to Watson and Barnett lifeboats (right). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sailing on Through Stormy Seas
Highlights from the Chairman's report to the Annual General Meeting on 22 May 2003At the Lifeboats AGM in May, Chairman Peter Nicholson looked back over another successful year, but warned that the Institution needs to react to a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Central Appeals Committee
ARRANGEMENTS are now well under way for a Midnight Matinee at the Victoria Palace, London, on Friday, March 8.
The committee responsible is working under the chairmanship of Lady Aitken.
By the time you...
Category: Committee
2d. a Week
A SMALL London firm has a life-boat collecting box which brings the Institu- tion about £10 a year. Each of the em- ployees of the firm puts in 2cl. a week..
Category: Donations
An Aeroplane (86)
MAY 17TH. - BUCKIE, BANFFSHIRE.
A British aeroplane was reported to have crashed, but nothing was found except wreckage. - Rewards, £2 13s..
An Aeroplane (62)
AUGUST 15TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 3.30 P.M., during an air raid, an aeroplane was seen from the boathouse to crash into the sea some three miles N. by W. of the station. The sea was smooth, with a N.W.
wind. The motor...
An Aeroplane (36)
DECEMBER 12TH. - BLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE.
A lady passenger on a tram asked the driver to report that she had seen an aeroplane crash in the sea, but the lifeboat found nothing. - Rewards, £13 13s. 6d..
Sixteen Men Rescued from Wreck
ON the 26th of April, 1955, the S.S.
Germania, of Piraeus, ran ashore to the east of Beachy Head. During the next ten days a number of salvage boats went out to her, and at 4.30 on the afternoon of the 6th of May Coxswain...
Category: Services
South Coast Rescue Boat
THE Institution has stationed one of its fast inshore rescue boats at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, to help Yarmouth's 48-foot 6-inch life-boat in rescue coverage of the Needles Channel-Lymington area.
Yarmouth's new... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs