LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Type of Motor Life-Boat
AT the end of last year we began building the first of a new type of Motor Life-boat.
She will be by far the largest and most powerful Motor Life-boat in the Instituincreased tion's Fleet, and will, in fact, be the...
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The New U.S. 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat
The following extract was taken from a paper presented to the ninth international life-boat conference in Edinburgh, 1963, by Lieut.-Commander Robert W. Witter, Chief, Boat Section, Naval Engineering Division, United States Coast Guard.<...
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The Institution's Income at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Income was obtained in 1937.
£ s. d.
40 14 0 _ _I H Subscriptions, Donations, and Lifeboat Days.
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A Life-Boat on the Thames
The reserve life-boat Elizabeth Wills Allen, which went up the Thames to Oxford, opposite County Hall (see page 595). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Around the World In a Day?
Circumnavigate the world without ever leaving London - on 25 September the RNLI is cramming the entire planet into the confines of Battersea!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
View of the Past:
View of the past: 'Hurry to the Rescue', a watercolour by George Owen dated 1893 and just one of the hundreds of exhibits at Sotheby's maritime exhibition Rule Britannia which runs from January 2 to 29, 1986 (closed January 6).... - View image in PDF
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National Life-Boat Institution. Services of Its Life-Boats During 1859
SERVICES OF ITS LIFE-BOATS DURING 1859.
FROM the annexed tabular statement it will be seen that during the year which has just ceased the life-boats of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have, at various points of...
Category: Services
Empress of India
The No. 1 Life- boat Covent Garden was launched at 1.45 P.M. on the 4th September, the Coastguard having reported a vessel was making distress signals. It transpired that the ketch barge Empress of India, of. Ipswich, whilst bound from...
Lottery
LOtteRY Lottery lifesavings When it comes to saving lives at sea, £200,000 is a great deal of money to raise. Luckily, improvements to the Lifeboat Lottery will save the RNLI approximately this much in administration – every year....
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A Magnificent Service on the East Coast
As the Journal goes to press the reports have been received of a magnificent service on the East Coast on 21st and 22nd November, in which the Motor Life-boats at Cromer, Gorleston, and Southwold all took part. The Dutch oil-tanker Georgia...
Category: Services