LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Civil Service Life-Boats
Inaugural Ceremonies at Donaghadee (Co. Down) and Whitehills (Banffshire).
DURING the present year the Inaugural Ceremonies have taken place of two new Motor Life-boats which are gifts to the Institution from the Civil...
Category: Inaugurations
Mr. H. C. Whitehead, Appledore
Mr. H. C. Whitehead. of Appledore, who died on October 2()th, had been for thirty years one of the most devoted and successful station honorary secre- taries. He became honorary secretary of the Appledore station in 1901, and held that post...
Category: Obituaries
Fig 1: Compressed Air Bottle With Pneumatic Valve Box at End Is Lowered on to Its Mounting Cradles By British Hovercraft Conversion Crew Brian Augustus (Left) and Leslie
Fig, 1: Compressed air bottle, with pneumatic valve box at end, is lowered on to its mounting cradles by British Hovercraft conversion crew, Brian Augustus (left) and Leslie Harris.
Note new square stretcher hatch into deck... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishermen at War
No one knows more intimately the fishermen and life-boatmen of Whitby than Mr. Leo Walmsley, author of "Sally Lunn" and "Three Fevers," from which the film "Turn of the Tide", with its life-boat scenes, was made...
Category: Articles
Mirza
OC T . 1 8 T H . - WALMER, KENT. At 6.30 P.M. a message was received from a doctor that he had been requested by the senior naval officer at Ramsgate to go to the Dutch steamer Mirza. A gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. As no motor...
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Long Tow
WHEN THE new Gorleston 44-foot steel life-boat Khami on 5th September, 1967» went to the aid of the m.v. Aureity, whose steering gear had broken down, no one knew then that the life-boat would end up by towing the auxiliary cutter...
Category: Services
Twelfth International Lifeboat Conference By Patrick Howarth
'Most of our problems are common — let us solve them together' by Patrick Howarth THE CITY OF HELSINKI became associated with international conferences in the minds of millions in July of this year through the great assembly of...
Category: Meetings
Heaving the Lead
OF the different guides to which the mariner has recourse in providing for the safety of his vessel as she forces her way through the trackless deep, none is of more importance, as none is more ancient, than that of the sounding-line and...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
AYR,N.B.—The brigantine Maggie Wood, of Belfast, bound from that port to Ayr in ballast, stranded on the Barton Rocks, about a mile and a half south of Ayr Harbour, during a gale of wind from the W.N.W. and a heavy sea on the evening of the...
Category: Services