LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
People and Places
Lottery To comply with Gaming Act requirements it was necessary to draw the 36th national lottery outside Poole headquarters for the very first time. The reason for this was that the date for the draw, January 31, fell on a Saturday. It did...
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Aquilla
OC T O B E R 5 T H . - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. At 10.20 A.M. the Mersey Dock Board reported that the coasting steamer Aquilla, of Liverpool, was flying distress signals in Formby Channel off Q3 Red Buoy. A moderate westerly gale was blowing,...
"Literature of the Life-Boat."
THERE are still some copies left of Literature of the Life-boat by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vicepresident of the Institution, published in 1936 and 1937 as supplements to this journal. A copy of the two supplements bound...
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A Landing Craft (2)
NOVEMBER 14TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. At 8.15 at night the life-boat coxswain was informed by the officer of Naval Motor Launch 535 that a landing craft had run ashore at Newford Island Point. A fresh north-by-east wind was blowing,...
Lieut-Colonel Sir William Hillary, Bt., Founder of the Institution
From a photograph of a cast of an alabaster medallion of Hillary by Wyon, engraver of the Kings Seals, who also designed the Institution's Medals. After Hillary's death in 1847, his grand-daughters presented the medallion to Mr. J. H... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Brett
Margate, Kent - At 2.35 p.m. on 31st October, 1968, a flare was sighted by the honorary secretary and the coxswain about a haJf mile north east of Margate jetty. The lifeboat North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) with her crew already on...
Krypton-Ites
Over 160 people tackled the famous assault course of television's The Krypton Factor on 1 June 1996 to raise funds for the RNLI. The course, situated at Holcombe Moor Training Centre near Bury, is not open to the public but is made... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
ROYAL ALBERT HALL FASHION SHOW
A gala fashion show under the title 'The Rescue Operators' is to be staged at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on Wednesday, October 1, in aid of four societies: St John Ambulance, Royal Life Saving Society, RNLI and Peter Fry Rescue...
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Thirty-Fifth Civil Service Life-Boat
ST. KATHARINE DOCK, London, was the scene in blustery weather on 4th May, 1966, of the naming of the first of the Institution's fleet of yo-foot steel life-boats - the £57,000 Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35) - by Princess...
Category: Inaugurations
Diesel Engines
SINCE the first experiments with motor life-boats in 1904, the Institution has used petrol engines. Diesel engines, although they have important advan- tages have, until recently, not been possible, because, with their low speed of...
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