LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blackfriars
Pollution disaster prevented Thanks on Vellum awarded to St. Davids coxswain Another pollution incident on the Welsh coast was averted when the St Davids lifeboat pulled a stranded oil tanker off a beach in a Gale Force 9.SIn a long and...
Lydia Williams of Liverpool
The Princess of WSife* life-boat at Holyhead saved 34 persons fewft the ship Lydia Williams, of Liverpool, whjoh. tank on Salt Island; 12 persons from the bamj/jr Bayadere, of Rouen: and 7 persons from, WJ.
schooner...
Life-Boat Oars
LIFE-BOAT OARS.
As a life-boat has, in the majority of eases, to be propelled by oars, and as, in order to rescue a shipwrecked crew, she has generally to be rowed to windward against a heavy sea and strong wind, it...
Category: Articles
Ad Infinitum:
Ad infinitum: there is no such thing as being put out to grass for many lifeboats leaving the RNLI's service. This photograph was taken in Montevideo in Uruguay last June on the day ADES II, formerly Arbroath's The Duke of Montrose,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meetings
The South Bank Meetings 1990 The Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards for 1989 The RNLI's 1990 Annual General meeting and Presentation of Awards, held on the South Bank in London on May 22, were again well attended by...
Category: Meetings
Fifty Years of Life-Boat Design
THE building of new life-boats is necessarily delayed owing to war conditions.
I think it is, therefore, a suitable time to look back, and consider the way we have come to the present stage, then look forward, and consider...
Category: Articles
William and The Rosa Marion
WHITBY.—At about 3 P.M. on the 11th January the wind blew a moderate gale from the E.N.E. with a heavy sea, and four fishing-cobles which had gone out in the morning were seen returning. As the wind and sea were increasing the foremost boat...
Right) Looking Aft Showing Neoprene Pipe from Scoop to Manifold and Pipes from Manifold Forward to Ballast and Trim Tanks Bevel Gearbox for Operation of Manifold
(Right) Looking aft, showing neoprene pipe from scoop to manifold, and pipes from manifold forward to ballast and trim tanks. Bevel gearbox for operation of manifold valve supported in position over bracket between longitudinals.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lord Alcester and Spartan
Shortly after 2 A.M. on the 18th February the ketch Lord Aleester, of London, and the ketch Spartan, of Montrose, collided about one and a half miles to the E.S.E.
of Palling. The No. 2 Life-boat Hearts I of Oak was...