LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Britta
Dover, Kent. At 7.8 on the evening of the 15th of February, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that the Swedish motor vessel Britta of Helsingborg, which had been in col- lision with the Italian tanker Mirella d'Amico...
Pauline May
At 10.57 A.M. on the llth September a boat- man at Frinton telephoned, through the Coastguard, that a small yacht was in difficulties off Frinton, and was flying a signal of distress. The Motor Life-boat E. M. E. D. was launched, and found...
The S.S. Febo
About 4 A.M.
during hazy weather on the 6th Feb- ruary, the s.s. Febo, of Genoa, bound for Glasgow with a cargo of iron ore, stranded on the rocks, and the Light- vessel in the vicinity commenced to fire signals. This...
A Yacht (2)
Seven aboard liferaft AT 0115 in the early hours of Saturday, October 20, 1984, red flares were sighted in the Bramble Bank area of the Solent. By 0136, Calshot's 40ft Keith Nelson lifeboat, Ernest William and Elizabeth Ellen Hinde,...
FROM FESTIVITIES TO FLOOD WATERS
Our Flood Rescue Team went to the aid of hundreds of people during Winter floods – including a stranded family
It should have been an exciting, festive family stay in Cumbria. But when young brothers Sebastian and Jacob...
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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New Life-boats Sent to the Coast
After the first sixteen months of the war the building of new life-boats almost ceased, and during the five years, eight months and five days of war, the Institution was able to send to the coast only seventeen new life-boats instead of the...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
RUNSWICK, YORKSHIRE. — Fourteen Whitby cobles being overtaken by a rough sea while fishing on the 13th Feb. 1900, were unable to return home and were seen to be making for Runswick. The Life-boat Gape of Good Hope was launched at 1.30 P.M....
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Rani IV
Poole, Dorset.—At eight o'clock on the evening of the 27th of September, 1957, a message was received that the cabin cruiser Rani IV, with a woman and three boys on board, was overdue from a trip in the harbour. After further enquiries...
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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