LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fig 6:
Fig 6: Deckhouse and cabin ventilation is protected from sea water by a combined capsize or anti-flooding air intake valve developed by the RNLI design office. When all is well, air coming in passes through a perforated box, B, past the open...
Category: Drawings
Central Operations/Information Room Rnli Headquarters Poole
CALLERS TO THE CENTRAL OPERATIONS/ INFORMATION ROOM on the fourth floor of the RNLFs headquarters are frequent. During a typical morning, the chief of operations may wish to be given particulars of recent lifeboat passages, the trials...
Category: Articles
Some Ways of Raising Money
National Lotteries YOU WILL FIND in this journal eight tickets for our fifth national lottery, also a reply paid envelope to use if you wish to take part. The tickets can be sold to any member of the public and not necessarily to members of...
Category: Donations
Ingleborough
CAISTER.—On the evening of the 23rd December flares were seen from a vessel ashore on the Barber Sand. The Godsend Life-boat was immediately launched, and on arriving at the sand the barque Ingleborough, of Hull, was found to have gone...
Prototype of the Experimental Rnli Medina 35 Lifeboat
IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, the RNLI has been exploring the possibilities of introducing intermediate lifeboats into its fleet: fast boats of about 35 feet in length, essentially simple but with outstanding seakeeping qualities, which would...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
ONCE AGAIN the Earls Court Boat Show has come and gone and what a success story we can relate! We signed on 761 new members: an all-time record. This is a fantastic achievement and I should like to thank the following people for all their...
Category: Articles
"The Life-Boat Men."
The following are the words of a spirited and striking song, set to music by the well-known composer Stephen Adams, recently published by Messrs. Boosey & Co., of Regent Street, London. The words, it will be observed, are by F....
Category: Songs
Heemskerk
Weymouth, Dorset.—At 10.27 on the morning of the 3rd of December, 1953, the Wyke Regis coastguard rang up to say that the Shambles light-vessel had reported that a vessel passing her was flying a distress signal. At 10.40 the life-boat...
The Life-Boat Thomas Masterman Hardy
On the closing of the Lyme Regis Life-boat Station the Pulling and Sailing Life-boat Thomas Masterman Hardy was to be returned to London, by rail from Weymouth. She left Lyme Regis for Weymouth at 8 P.M. on the 10th November. At daybreak on...
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LIFE-BOAT ESCORTS HELICOPTER Clovelly, Devon. At three o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday the 1st of September, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a man had been injured on Lundy Island. A helicopter which was to fly...