LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Twenty-Mile Tow Off the Kerry Coast
AT 4.15 on the afternoon of the 13th of May, 1953, the honorary secretary of the Valentia, Co. Kerry, life-boat station heard from the Valentia radio station, that the French trawler Liber- ator, of Calmaret, had lost her propeller and...
Category: Services
The "Dunleary" (Civil Service No. 6). Presented By the Civil Service Life-Boat Fund
A Non-self-righting Motor Life-boat of the Watson type (45 ft by 12 ft. 6 in.}. Fitted with a Tylor engine developing 60 B.H.P.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The 37-Foot Oakley Life-Boat Amelia Which Was Paraded In London In the 1968 Lord Mayor's Show the Same Life-Boat Was Also on Show In the Forecourt of St. Paul's Cathe
The 37-foot Oakley life-boat Amelia which was paraded in London in the 1968 Lord Mayor's Show. The same life-boat was also on show in the forecourt of St. Paul's Cathedral and the climax to her three-day stay was a service on board... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Attending the Naming Ceremony of the New D Class John Edmond
Attending the naming ceremony of the new D class John Edmonds are (from left to right) staff officer Richard Perks, deputy head of fundraising and marketing Anthony Oliver, Mrs Elsie Edmonds, Mr Eric Kincaid, Mr David Kincaid and The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Late M. Albert, Inspector of Life-Boats to the French Life-Boat Society
IT is a calamity, and a cause of deep re- gret, when a man engaged in, and pecu- liarly fitted for, the development and con- solidation of a national work is torn from his labours by death, while still much of his undertaking remains to be...
Category: Obituaries
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Jfte figure! refer to the mcmten oftlix Life-lmtt detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A, F. H., 131.
A Friend at Bradford, 63.
A. Lady, 16.
A Lady, 31.
A Lady,...
Category: Drawings
H.R.H. The Duchess of York on Board the Arbroath Motor Life-Boat
With her are the Duke of Montrose, the Lady Helen Graham (Lady-in-Waiting), Mr. Robert L. Mudie, and Commander Drury, Chief Inspector of Life-boat*.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Service on Exhibition
DURING the past few months, the Life- boat Service has been represented at three different exhibitions. From December 26th-31st, 1950, there was a scientific exhibition at the Imperial College, South Kensington, organised by Crosby Hall (the...
Category: Articles
The Pontoon Pile Driver Topmast No. 3
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 5.5 P.M. on the 3rd October, 1938, information was received at the life-boat station, through the police, that Topmast No. S, a pontoon pile driver of Southampton, which was at work in connexion with a sewer to...
The Indian-Registered Freighter Vishva Parag
You can't park that 'ere...
The Tyne class lifeboat Ethel Anne Measures stationed at The Mumbles was at sea for five hours on 28 January 1994 when she stood by the 560ft Indian-registered freighter Vishva Parag...