LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 121 and 130, the following launches on service were made during the months of December 1966, to February., 1967, inclusive:...
Category: Services
Fig 2: Forward Well Note Twin Engine Coolers Fitted Into Bilges and Also Aluminium Vent Trunks at Forward End of Well Sides Which Will Route Air from the Wing Compartm
Fig. 2: Forward well. Note twin engine coolers fitted into bilges and also aluminium vent trunks at forward end of well sides which will route air from the wing compartments through to lower part of forward end box. Benches run down each... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Ways of Raising Money
Two girls of Stamford High School, Lincolnshire, Rosetta Birkbeck and Gillian Foot, enjoy collecting for the R.N.L.I. Late last year they sent £33 14s. 4d., and explained:' We have made the collection in several different ways. Six...
Category: Donations
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 5th April, 1860. THOMAS BARING, Esq., M.P., F.R.S., V.P.,in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committee.
Category: Committee
None (1)
Entire station takes part in long search for missing girl It is unusual for a lifeboat station to be awarded a Thanks of the Institution on Vellum, but this was the only way in which the dedication of almost the entire station could be...
The Gear a Life-Boat Carries
Assistant Chief Inspector of Life-boats A MODERN life-boat may cost as much as £36,500. The great bulk of the cost is, of course, that of the hull and machinery, but a modern life-boat also carries a variety of stores and equip- ment....
Category: Articles
The German Life-Boat Institution. (From the Shipping World, 1st July, 1894.)
WE learn from the Annual Report (for the year 1893-4) of the Deutsche Gesell- schaft znr Eettung Schiffbriichiger, read at the annual meeting of the committee held at Frankfort-on-the-Main on the 29th May, that in the course of the year the...
Category: Articles
July (1)
FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHENSHIRE. About 7.30 in the morning of the 26th of April, 1943, a dinghy belonging to the R.A.F. Rescue Service (Maintenance and Repair) Unit, with seven men on board, capsized in deep water between 20 and 30 yards from the...
Category: Services
Teds' Treat! the Teddy Bears' Picnic held at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea
Teds' Treat! The Teddy Bears' Picnic held at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea lifeboat station was a roaring success for bears and bear owners. Teddy biscuits with teddy juice were sold for 30p and competitions were held for the largest teddy,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after-...
Category: Services