LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services by Shore-Boats (10)
BURRAFIRTH, LERWICK, SHETLANDS. At 1.52 P.M. on the 20th October, 1939, the coastguard asked the Lighthouse Shore Station at Burrafirth to send its boat to pick up the crew of the S.S. Sea Venture, of London, which had been sunk by enemy...
Category: Services
The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1930.
£ ' s. d.
44 6 0 •- —— —— —- —•— — Subscriptions, Donations, and Life-boat Days.
37 6 0...
Category: Accounts
List of Successes In the Essay Competition
London District (County Council Area and Middlesex).
Name.
Age.
School.
William Bennett Freda Shine Thomas Gover .
Maureen Conway John...
Category: Articles
When Col J. T. Benn the District Organising Secretary for the Midlands Attended the Annual Meeting of the Caister-On-Sea Branch In Norfolk He Presented a Silver Badge
When Col. J. T. Benn, the District Organising Secretary for the Midlands, attended the annual meeting of the Caister-on-Sea branch in Norfolk, he presented a silver badge to Miss Alice Brown, a vice president of the Caister ladies'... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Capsize Drill: In Practice the Crew Remain In the Atlantic As She Is Hauled Over By crane So That They Will Fall Beneath the Hull Where They Would Probably Be Should the Boat Be Capsized at Sea In A
Capsize drill: in practice, the crew remain in the Atlantic as she is hauled over bycrane so that they will fall beneath the hull, where they would probably be should the boat be capsized at sea.
In an inverted state the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Eyemouth Motor Fishing Boat Spes Bona (1)
MARCH 13TH. - ST. ABBS, and EYEMOUTH, BERWICKSHIRE. The Royal Observer Corps saw signals of distress and reported them to the police, who informed the St. Abbs Life-boat station at 2.30 in the afternoon. A whole northerly gale was blowing,...
Almost Twenty Years of Arun Development the Prototype Arun (1971) Shows the High Freeboard and Original Wheelhouse While the Final Boat Duke of Atholl
Almost twenty years of Arun development. The prototype Arun (1971) shows the high freeboard and original wheelhouse. - View image in PDF
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Below) Hubert Petit Coxswain of St.Peter Port from 1948 to 1964 Was Awarded Both the Knli's Gold Medal and the Gold Medal of the Norwegian Lifeboat Institution F
(Below) Hubert Petit, coxswain of St Peter Port from 1948 to 1964, was awarded both the KNLI's gold medal and the gold medal of the Norwegian Lifeboat Institution for the service to Johan Collett in 1963. With deep regret we announce his... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Liberty Ship Fort St. Paul, and The Admiralty Vessel Ben My Chree
JANUARY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.10 in the afternoon the naval control told the coxswain that two ships had been in collision between No. 1 and No. 2 Sea Reach Buoys. There was a thick fog, with a light westerly breeze and a...
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 3
IN the last number of the Life-boat Journal (August, 1900) this sketch was taken up to 1840, when the Liverpool type of Life-boat came into use, and the improvements in that type were traced up to the present date.
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