LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Saving By the Coastguard In 1937
IN 1937 the coastguard organization took action in 314 cases in which vessels or aircraft were either observed or reported to be in distress, in difficul- ties, or overdue off the coasts of Great Britain and Northern...
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Baptism by mire
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA | 3 NOVEMBER
Southend’s search and rescue hovercraft crew launched to reports of five people in the water struggling to get ashore. The volunteers quickly located three of them –...
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The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
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Peggy
Ex pilot cutter HARTLAND COASTGUARD received a message from the British coaster Candourity at 0255 on Monday September 3, 1979, reporting the sighting of a red flare and a flashing light from a yacht some 13 miles north by east of Trevose...
Fig 2: Looking Forward from the Transom
Fig. 2: Looking forward from the transom down the fast slipway lifeboat's starboard propeller tunnel. Further protection will be given to the propellers by deep bilge keels not yet fitted.. - View image in PDF
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(Right) After Naming Mabel Alice the Duke of Kent
Right) After naming Mabel Alice, the Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, is shown over the lifeboat by Coxswain Kenneth Thomas.
With them (I) are Cdr Bruce Cairns, chief of operations, and (r) the Duke of Atholl,... - View image in PDF
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Struggling against 4m swells
23 October: Ilfracombe After spotting a yacht anchored near Ilfracombe Pier with waves breaking over her, Coxswain Andrew Bengey contacted the Coastguard. His crew mates launched shortly afterwards in force 7...
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The German Life-Boat Society During the War
THE War, which caused such an inter- ruption in neatly every branch of national and international life, very soon led to a complete cessation of the exchange of journals and reports between this Institution and the Life-boat Services of our...
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AUGUST 27TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. A boy had been reported floating out to sea on an air cushion, but what had been seen was a floating log.- Rewards, £5 1s..
Two By Two They Rode to the Young Farmers' Conference at Blackpool Members of the Norton and Gaulby Young Farmers' Club Solved a Transport Problem and Raise
Two by two they rode to the Young Farmers' Conference at Blackpool.
Members of the Norton and Gaulby Young Farmers' Club solved a transport problem and raised money for the RNLl as they went by organising a... - View image in PDF
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