LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sea-Plane
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—At about 3.10 P.M. on the 24th July, 1938, just as the annual sacred service at the life-boathouse was beginning, news was received that a sea-plane had come down three or four miles off Port Erin.
A...
Four Inaugural Ceremonies. St. Peter Port, Boulmer, Cloughey and Clogher Head
St. Peter Port, Boulmer, Cloughey and Clogher Head.
DURING September four Inaugural Cere- monies of Motor Life-boats took place, making a total of twenty-two such cere- monies held this year. The accounts of the other...
Category: Inaugurations
Whitstable: on Saturday July 9 a New Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Was Handed Over By Mr and Mrs Todd of the British Sub Aqua
Whitstable: On Saturday July 9 a new Atlantic 21 rigid inflatable lifeboat was handed over by Mr and Mrs Todd of the British Sub Aqua Club to Raymond Baxter, a member of the Committee of Management, who, in turn, handed her over to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Scarborough 37-Foot Oakley Life-Boat J. G. Graves of Sheffield
The Scarborough 37-foot Oakley life-boat /. G. Groves of Sheffield whose coxswain recently wrote to Mr. R. A. Oakley, M.B.E., M.R.I.N.A.,the life-boat designer, who fast year retired from full-time service with the Institution, to tell him... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Mr. A. W. Hawkes, of Waldringfield, Suffolk, Has Been 'Bottling' Life-Boats for Quite a Time
Mr. A. W. Hawkes, of Waldringfield, Suffolk, has been 'bottling' life-boats for quite a time. The three models shown here cover the period 1890 to the introduction of the 70-foot steel life-boat. Mr. Hawkes writes: 'Putting boats... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter,) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The inauguration of the Queen Victoria new Life-boat on this station, a description of which was given in the last number of The Life-boat Journal (pp. 528-9), took place on the 23rd August in the presence of a...
Category: Articles
At a Coffee Evening Held to Mark the Retirement of Erdington
At a coffee evening held to mark the retirement of Erdington, Birmingham, branch honorary treasurer Mr H. Higton, seen here (I.) shaking hands with chairman Reginald Wood, £60 was raised; this brought the branch's takings to a very... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Constantine Brings Scarborough's Mersey Class Lifeboat In Stern First Through Heavy Seas on One of Eight Attempts to Get Close Enou
Coxswain/mechanic Richard Constantine brings Scarborough's Mersey class lifeboat in stern first through heavy seas on one of eight attempts to get close enough to the sea wall. Photo Scarborough Evening News. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
Greater London.
PRESENTATION of awards for Greater London and the South-east of England in the Life-boat Essay Competition, by Sir Malcolm Campbell, the Mayor of Westminster presiding. (See full report in last issue of The...
Category: Branches