LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The 52Ft Barnett Relief Lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse While at Ramsey During a Passage from Holyhead to Arranmore Launched on the Morning of Janu
The 52ft Barnett relief lifeboat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse, while at Ramsey during a passage from Holyhead to Arranmore, launched on the morning of January 23 to take over from HMS Soberton the tow of Dutch, a converted ship's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An American Fortress Aeroplane (2)
MARCH 6TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. While the lifeboat was out on a trial run an American Fortress aeroplane was seen to crash, but the life-boat found no survivors. - Rewards, £12 4s. 6d..
The Prime Minister Mrs Margaret Thatcher With Second Coxswain Robert Jones Took the Wheel of Holyhead's New 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Hyman Winstone During a Visit on July 18 Mrs Thatcher Als
The Prime Minister, Mrs Margaret Thatcher, with Second Coxswain Robert Jones, took the wheel of Holyhead's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Hyman Winstone during a visit on July 18. Mrs Thatcher also met crew members and their wives and branch and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Dinghy and Two Yachts (1)
RESCUES FROM THREE YACHTS IN TURN Southend-on-Sea, Essex, and Margate, Kent. At 1.5 on the afternoon of the 26th August, 1962, the coastguard ininformed the honorary secretary at Southend-on-Sea that a small sailing dinghy had capsized near...
Shamrock, of Liverpool
On the 5th Jan- uary the sloop Shamrock, of Liverpool, was seen at anchor in a distressed state in Wicklow Bay. There was a heavy gale blowing at the time, and she had lost some of her spars. The life-boat Robert Theophilus Garden was...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated &y Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Scene Off Torquay on 7Th December, 1959,
Scene off Torquay on 7th December, 1959, when bad weather compelled a tug to keep three barges under tow in order to hold them off the lee shore.
Two of the barges appear close together—the third one, far right, which was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Linwood
OCT. 12TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. - At about 11.10 P.M. the coastguard reported that a vessel was believed to be in distress a mile S.E. of the station. The report was confirmed, and the No. 2 motor life-boat, Harriot Dixon, was launched by...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
SERVICES OF THE LIFE-BOATS OF THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
LLANELLY, SOUTH Witis—On the 7 January, 1867, intelligence was received here that a vessel was amongst the breakers on the Towyn Sands with signals of...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
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