LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Of the 11 New Life-Boats Ordered In 1971 Four Were of the 44-Foot Steel Waveney Class Three of the 37-Foot Mark I Rother (Above) Two of the 50-Foot Steel Thames (Below
Of the 11 new life-boats ordered in 1971 four were of the 44-foot steel Waveney class, three of the 37-foot Mark i Rother (above), two of the 50-foot steel Thames (below), one of the 52-foot Mark II Arun and one of the 71-foot steel Clyde... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the beat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate transportation to the...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Year's Work
THE work of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, in saving life from Shipwreck in the year 1872, may thus be briefly summarised:— Lives saved.
By Life-boats 569 By Shore-boats and other means, for -whose services the...
Category: Annual Reports
Mr Punch on the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to July 31st, 1950 - 76,938 Mr. Punch on the Life-boat Service This article by Mr. P. R....
Category: Articles
The Motor Fishing Coble Shiela
JANUARY 21ST. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
As the local motor fishing coble Shiela was long overdue, and could not be seen, the motor life-boat The Cuttle was launched at 5.55 in the evening, as night was coming on, to look for her....
The American Sailing Yacht, Seafarer
AUGUST 7TH. - RAMSGATE, KENT. At 9.12 at night the Ramsgate coastguard reported a sailing yacht aground on the Goodwin Sands. A light west-south-west breeze was blowing and the sea was calm.
At 9.20 the motor life-boat...
The Ex-Fishing Smack Quix
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 8.55 on the evening of the 3rd September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht, which he had had under observation for some time, had fired a red flare about four miles north-east of...
Standing By After Taking Off Crew
St. Mary's, Scilly Isles, life-boat and S.S. Punta (see page 158). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late George Lyall, Esq.
WE deeply lament to record the death of Mr. LYALL, the much-respected Deputy- Chairman of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, which event took place on the 12th October.
Mr. LYALL was the son of the late Mr. GEOEGE LYALL,...
Category: Obituaries
The Doyen of Honorary Secretaries
A VERY pleasant ceremony took place in the Guild Hall, Exeter, on the 24th July, when Mr. Courtenay H. Edmonds, the Honorary Secretary of the Exeter Branch, and Mrs. Ferris Tozer, the Honorary ' Secretary of the Ladies' Auxiliary, re...
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