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The Duke of Edinburgh at the Lizard-Cadgwith
The lift is an unusual fixture of the new life-boat station. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Above: the Boats Line Up Ready for the Helicopter Exercise
Above: The boats line up ready for the helicopter exercise Picluie: Paul Glatiel. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rug Making for the Institution
IN The Lifeboat for December, 1931 it was announced that the Honorary Secretary of the Branch at Cobham, Surrey, Miss Margaret Power, had very kindly offered to make woollen hearth- rugs and slip mats in aid of the Institu- tion's funds....
Category: Donations
Just One of the Many Naming Ceremonies for Inshore Lifeboats Held In Wales During September
Just one of the many naming ceremonies for inshore lifeboats held in Wales during September - the D class at Conwy. Miss Joan Bate names the station's new D class Arthur Bate after her brother who provided the legacy which funded the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Belts Used By the Crews of the Life-Belts of the National Life-Belt Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a m«n heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support auother...
Category: Articles
The Barges Sunrise and Afternoon
On the afternoon of the 16th February, the coxswain and the shore signalman, who were at the pier head, saw two barges in difficulties midway between Sea Reach buoy No. 3 and Jenkin buoy. One barge was driving hard astern. A whole W.S.W....
Riders of the storm – the story of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Riders of the storm – the story of the Royal National
Lifeboat Institution
by Ian Cameron
Review by Carol Waterkeyn
This is a new edition of the hardback book published in...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30Th June, 1892
ONCE again the Board of Trade has issued its important and interesting Annual Blue Book, supplying all sorts of statistics and furnishing every possible information relative to the shipping casualties- and wrecks which take place each year...
Category: Articles
Lady Daphne
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
The Irish Motor Torpedo Boat M. 4,
Ballycotton, Co. Cork, and Helvick Head, Co. Waterford.—During the afternoon of the 10th of January, 1950, the Helvick Head life-boat, H. F. Bailey, was on passage from Baltimore, expecting to call at Ballycotton. About 4.50, a searchlight...