LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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At about 8.40 P.M.
on the 26th January, the coastguard reported that news had been received from Herne Bay that two rockets had been seen in the neighbourhood of the Girdler lightvessel. A moderate N.N.W. gale was blowing,...
Book Reviews
• Lifeboats of the World by E. W.
Middleton (Blandford Press £3.75) is the most comprehensive study yet made of the way in which different countries organise their lifeboat services. The author examines the services in...
Category: Articles
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To WILLIAM SUTHERLAND, on his retirement, after serving for 30 years as coxswain of the Anstruther life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service.
To GEORGE CRANER, on his retirement, after serving for 21 years as...
Category: Awards
Fairey Marine Group
FAIREY MARINE GROUP You should never need a lifeboat in your Fairey fast patrol boat, commercial vessel, high speed motor yacht or luxury off-shore power cruiser because they are designed and built to the highest standards of seaworthiness....
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Sincere
Search for missing vessel locates wreck A total of 21 boats, including the Scarborough, Filey and Whitby lifeboats, took part in the search for the fishing vessel Sincere with two persons on board, when it failed to return to harbour on 28...
New Maiden In South London
You would have to have exceptional hearing to claim that New Maiden in South London was within the sound of Bow Bells, but this did not deter Alice Hodgkin (r), catering manager of Spillers Foods, New Maiden from organising a Cockney evening... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels In 1937 and Numbers of the Fleets
DURING 1937 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 21 British vessels.
Four of these services were by France, 2 by Iceland, 1 by Holland, 1 by Belgium, 1 by Norway and 15 by the United...
Category: Services
Light Motor Life-Boats.
By Commander Edward D. Drury, O.B.E., R.D., R.N.R., Chijf Inipsctor of Life-boats.
UNTIL 1921 Motor Life-boats could only | be placed at Stations where it was possible to build a Launching Slipway, or where the boat could...
Category: Articles
Norwegian Dream and the Container Vessel Ever Decent (1)
Collision Aftermath The collision between the cruise liner Norwegian Dream and the container vessel Ever Decent off the coast of Kent in the early hours of Tuesday 24 August 1999 comes as a sharp reminder of how important it is to be...