LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mrs Anne Armstrong United States Ambassador Was Guest of Honour at the Reception at the Mansion House In the City of London on December I Which Launched the Ame
Mrs Anne Armstrong, United States Ambassador, was guest of honour at the reception at the Mansion House in the City of London on December I which launched the American! British lifeboat appeal. With her are seen (r. to I.) the Lord Mayor and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Durban Castle
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.5 on the night of the 18th of December, 1958, the port medical officer of Cowes informed the honorary secretary that an injured seaman on board the S.S.
Durban Castle required hospital treat-...
Vellum for Seamanship of a High Order
AT 7.26 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1961, the coastguard in- formed the honorary secretary of the Weymouth life-boat station, Mr. K. H.
Mooring Aldridge, that a motor vessel was ashore on Portland...
Category: Awards
A Life-Boat Model from the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough
Lv the spring of 1951 the Arts and Crafts Guild of the Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, held its annual exhibition. Included in it was a life-boat stall, with pictures of life-boats and a model being built of a 52-feet Barnett...
Category: Articles
The Torpedo Boat Destroyer Wolf
At 12.30 A.M. on the 27th February the watchman re- ported that a vessel was ashore on the Inner Binks. A strong S.S.W. gale prevailed at the time with a heavy sea, and the Life-boat was promptly launched. As it was impossible to reach...
The Arun Class Is the Most Numerous of the RNLI's All-Weather Lifeboats.
The Arun class is the most numerous of the RNLI's all-weather lifeboats.
Designed to lie afloat on a mooring 46 boats were built between 1971 and 1990 for use in every Division.
Although some changes... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Operational Districts of the R.N.L.I.
OPERATIONAL DISTRICTS OF THE R.NL.I.
WITH EFFECT PRCM IST. JJUT' 196%.
Category: Charts
The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of ex-Coxswain Stephen Clayson, of Margate, Kent. He served as second coxswain for over seven years, from 1898 to 1905, and then as coxswain for twenty years, retiring in 1925 at the age of seventy-two. During...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
A further substantial increase in the receipts and a further satisfactory decrease in the working expenses! This is the highly gratifying report supplied by the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund as the result of their labours...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service Abroad
United States.
Tins service is, as our readers are aware, a State service, and is the only one entirely managed, administered and sup- ported by the State, except the Danish Life-boat Service. In January, 191#f an...
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