LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Glenville West
Glanvill Enthoven INTERNATIONAL INSURANCE BROKERS In our 75th anniversary year, we send greetings to all our clients including the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
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Sungea Biru
Hastings, Sussex. At 2.4 on the morning of the 4th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a red flare had been seen about six miles east-north-east of the Fairlight look-out post. The life-boat M.T.C. was launched...
Vagabond
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At 2.4 early on the morning of the 29th of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Lynwell lightvessel had re- ported that the auxiliary yacht Vaga- bond, of Peterborough, which had a crew of two, had...
The Royal Bank of Scotland
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Developing and supplying specialist equipment for over 4000 crew members is a very expensive exercise. The...
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Lieutenant-Colonel C. R. Satterthwaite, O.B.E. (1)
COLONEL CLEMENT RICHARD SATTERTHWAITE retired from the secretaryship of the Institution at the end of last year. He had then been in its service for twenty-two years, nearly seven as deputy-secretary and over fifteen as...
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Eilae
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 5.55 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1954. the coxswain reported that four people had left Rock Ferry for a cruise in the 20-feet yacht Eilae about 1.45 and were now overdue. The Formby coastguard reported...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALLYCOTTON, Co. CORK.—A new Life- boat has been placed here, one of the 34 feet 10-oared class having been substi- tuted for the smaller boat at this Station.
The new Life-boat is named the Oliver Qoldsmith, it having...
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Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Antaeus
Eighteen lifeboats at sea as storm sweeps country 'Services varied from false alarms - both with good intent and malicious - to fishing vessels and commercial passenger vessels...' The severe storms which swept much of the country on...
Beaufort Wind Scale
BEAUFORT WIND SCALE Force 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Limits of wind speed in knots (A knot is one nautical mile per hour) Less than 1 1-3 4-6 7-10 11-16 17-21 22-27 28-33 34-40 41 7 48-55 56-63 64+ Description Calm Light air Light breeze...
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