LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medical Arrangements In the Rnli: Part II Current Work and Policies By Geoffrey Hale Mbe Mb BCh
TO OUTLINE ALL the work of the Medical and Survival Committee would take too long, so the following paragraphs will contain accounts of activities selected because they are likely to be of general interest and, where necessary, explanations...
Category: Articles
The Austrian Brig Zorniza, of Lucine
About -9.30 P.M., on the 7th December, the St, Nicholas lightship was observed throwing .up rockets, and a light was seen as if from a vessel in distress on the Scroby Sands. The Yarmouth large life-boat was immediately launched, and...
The Archbishop of Wales' Appeal
THE Institution has received from the Archbishop of Wales a personal letter commending the work of the Institu- tion to the clergy and members of the Church in Wales. It is dated 23rd January, 1939: " I hope that both the clergy and the...
Category: Correspondence
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent Presenting Alderney Coxswain Stephen Shaw With the First of His Two Bronze Medals
Her Royal Highness, the Duchess of Kent, presenting Alderney Coxswain Stephen Shaw with the first of his two bronze medals.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Margate Life-Boat and the Barge Vera
From a painting executed by W. G. Hopper, a former member of the crew (See page 409).
Category: Drawings
Above Right: the Lifeboat Shop
Above right: The Lifeboat Shop earns over £30,000 a year for Dublin branch. Its main trade is in second hand clothes which are donated by the bundle. They are sorted, put on display and sold by a dedicated band of volunteer ladies who... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Old Coxswain's Motto. (Verses for Recitation.)
IN MEMORIAM CAISTER LIFE-BOAT DISASTER (14th November, 1901).
"The Caister men never turn back." (As reported at the Inquest, 15th November.)(The old Coxswain speaks)— WHAT is this we have done ? Why, our duty,...
Category: Poetry
The R.A.S.C. Tender Sir Herbert Miles
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.25 in the afternoon of the 28th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was sounding her whistle for help, and the No. 2 life-boat, Edmund and Mary Robinson, was launched at...
(Right) Invited Guests Were Joined By Other Spectators Aboard the Island's
(Right) Invited guests were joined by many other spectators aboard the island's launches. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of F. E. Gibson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Dutch Medina Lifeboat Koningin Beatrix (Below) Which Visited Poole In Early June Demonstrates the Exceptional Manoeuvrability of Her Jet Propulsion Off the Shingle Bank
The Dutch Medina lifeboat Koningin Beatrix (below), which visited Poole in early June, demonstrates the exceptional manoeuvrability of her jet propulsion off the Shingle Bank.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs