LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
In Fog Off Chesil Beach
ON the evening of the 2nd of Apfil a strong south-westerly wind was blowing at Weymouth. The sea was rough; there was a heavy driving rain; there were dense banks of fog. At a quarter past six the coastguard telephoned to the honorary...
Category: Services
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 2.—The 51-Feet Barnett (Stromness) Type
THE 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat is a modification of the 60-feet Barnett Motor Life-boat which was described in The Lifeboat for last February. She is nearly as fast as the larger type (only half a knot less), but she has not...
Category: Articles
A Cheer for the Life-Boat
" SIR you observe that ?" we asked, one autumnal evening in the year of grace and so forth, when, with a score of others, we were peering into the darkness from the weather-side of Ratnsgate Pier.
'•What, sir...
Category: Articles
A Boat from an Examination Vessel
DECEMBER 18TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. A boat, from an examination vessel, with a crew of three, had gone ashore, but the men landed without help.- Paid permanent crew..
An Australian Motor Life-Boat In Action
This boat stationed at Queenscliff, Victoria, was built at Port Adelaide in 1926, after designs of the Institution, and her engines and fittings were supplied by the Institution.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Exhibition of Life-Boat Photographs
THE first exhibition of life-boat photographs to be held was shown in London in June and July. It consisted of upwards of seventy photographs taken all round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. The photographs showed wrecks, the...
Category: Articles
(Above) Chile: Valparaiso Lifeboat Is An EX-Rnli 14M Watson
(Above) Chile: Valparaiso lifeboat is an e.x-RNLI 14m Watson.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Category: Advertisement
Book Reviews
• Howard Biggs, in his book The Sound of Maroons (Terence Dalton, Suffolk, £5.80) has researched diligently to produce such a fine history of the Kent and Sussex lifeboat stations from 1802 to 1977.
Much more than a...
Category: Articles
Annual Meeting
THE annual meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 13th of March, 1951, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings