LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Irish Air Force Seaplane
Launches 37. Lives Rescued 12.
MARCH. 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, AND KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD. A the message was received at Rosslare at 4.55 P.M.
that an Irish Air Force seaplane had come down in the sea off...
The Ladies Oj Kirkburton Guild West Yorkshire Together With Many Friends Volunteered to Be Extras In a Training Film Made Recently for the National Biscuit Company At
The ladies oj Kirkburton guild. West Yorkshire, together with many friends, volunteered to be extras in a training film made recently for the National Biscuit Company at Hillards stores.
After a very entertaining afternoon,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
EASTBOURNE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a new and additional Life-boat station at Eastbourne in order to strengthen the Life- boat service on that coast, the Local Committee unanimously approving of the formation of...
Category: Articles
Conference: (R to I) Commander David Wilford Rnr Superintendent of Depot Mick Wheeler Assistant Superintendent of Works Depot and Ron Taylor Machine Shop For
Conference: (r. to I.) Commander David Wilford, RNR, superintendent of depot, Mick Wheeler, assistant superintendent of works depot, and Ron Taylor, machine shop foreman.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Loss of the Pandora
DURING the evening of the 21st of October. 1951, a very sudden gale blew up from the north on the Yorkshire coast, and just after 6.30 next morning the coastguard at Staithes rang up the Runswick life-boat station. A ship could be seen...
Category: Articles
The British and Foreign Sailors' Society
As our readers are aware, the subjects treated on in this journal have been exclusively those which are either directly, or indirectly, connected with the function of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION—the " Preservation of Life...
Category: Articles
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 14th November, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Co-opted Vice-Admiral Sir ARTHUR A. M.
DUFF, K.C.B., a member of the Committee of...
Category: Committee
Massive mission
When a 180m-long cargo vessel beached on a sandbank on 3 January, some crew members were trapped inside while others prepared to abandon ship. What happened next called on the skill and courage of four lifeboat...
Category: Articles
Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1936
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools, has been held this year for the sixteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,175, a decrease on last year of 336.
Of this...
Category: Articles
Lighting the Beach
SAILORS have always been famous for the keenness of their vision, and more especially for a power, beyond that of the average man of seeing clearly at night; but of those who serve the sea, none perhaps has this gift in larger measure than...
Category: Articles