LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Broughty Ferry (Dundee): Before the Naming Ceremony Began a Souvenir Programme Was Presented to the Duke of Kent By Catherine Piggot (Right) Daughter of Cre
Broughty Ferry (Dundee): Before the naming ceremony began a souvenir programme was presented to the Duke of Kent by Catherine Piggot (right), daughter of Crew Member Alastair Piggot. After the ceremony Coxswain John Jack and his crew took... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
In the picture
The RNLI has amassed a huge collection of inspirational photographs and paintings over the last 188 years. These images are not simply a record of the RNLI’s work – they tell the story of our social history and give a remarkable insight into...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies. Cadgwith, Holy Island, Pwllheli and the Mumbles
Four naming ceremonies of motor life-boats took place in the summer of 1947 at Cadgwith, Holy Island, Pwllheli and The Mumbles.
Cadgwith The Cadgwith life-boat is of the 35-feet 6-inches, light, self-righting type, weighing...
Category: Inaugurations
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
FOLKESTONE. — The ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life- boat station at Folkestone, in accordance with the wishes of the local residents, as an additional safeguard for life-saying pur- poses for that part of the coast, the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Newbridge
In boisterous weather on the 18th February it was reported that a large steamer was close in shore, and was in imminent danger of stranding. Without delay the Life-boat Jones-Gibb was launched, and proceeded to the vessel. She proved to be...
Fig 6: Brian Augustus Inspects Antibounce Device In Control Box Weighted Gravity Sensitive Lever Can Be Seen In Centre Pressure Gauge on Top Left and a Tube of Silica Gel C
Fig. 6: Brian Augustus inspects antibounce device in control box. Weighted gravity sensitive lever can be seen in centre, pressure gauge on top left and a tube of silica gel crystals (to ensure there is no moisture in this watertight box)... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An Aeroplane (141)
SEPTEMBER 16TH. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. An unknown bombing aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £17 6s..
An Aeroplane (95)
AUGUST 19TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A British bomber had been reported down in the sea, but the life-boat found nothing, and it was learned later that the pilot had brought her safely home. - Rewards, £13 6s. 6d.
The Admiralty Minesweeping Trawler Ethel Taylor
NOVEMBER 22ND. - CULLERCOATS, NORTHUMBERLAND. In the afternoon the coastguard asked that the life-boat should go to a position one and a half miles S.E. of Tyne Piers, and at 4.58 P.M. the motor lifeboat Westmorland was launched. A light N.W...
The S.S. Loch Ranza
Flamborough, Yorkshire.—At 8.5 on the evening of the 20th of August,1956, the coastguard rang up to say a message had been received from the S.S. Loch Ranza, of Glasgow, asking that an injured man be taken ashore.
At 10.20...