LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services By Offshore Lifeboats (From Page 82)
Services by Offshore Lifeboats (from page 82) Barry Dock, South Glamorgan June 13, 14, 30, July 1 (twice), 6, 20, 26, 28 (twice), August 4, 8, 24.
Beaumaris, Gwynedd July 19.
Bembridge, Isle of Wight June...
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Nature of the Services By Life-Boats and Inshore Rescue Boats
CLASS 1962 No. %of total 1963 No. %of total % of total services 5 10 15 20 25 30 Fishing boats - all types 151 18-1 170 19-7 (1962) | 1963 Motor vessels,...
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Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Ix—Closed Circuits
FIRST A CORRECTION: In part VIII of this article an error appeared in the size given for the keel bolts. The ballast keel of the Rother is in fact fixed with 12mm bolts.
The photographs on this page show work progressing on...
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Privileged View
On Monday 22 October 2007 I accepted an invitation from Skegness Coxswain John Irving to join some training. By 5.30pm the waterproof tractor was attached to the carriage and the Mersey class lifeboat The Lincolnshire Poacher was towed out...
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Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
Brothers and stations uniteWhen Red Bay lifeboat crew were paged, there was no immediate threat to life for the couple on the yacht, Chtoe. Yet at Red Bay station brothers Tom and Paddy McLaughlin remember thinking: 'It was blowing a...
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An Aeroplane (28)
JULY 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
During the evening of the 20th the life-boat crew were assembled as an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the call was cancelled. Later flashes were reported and the...
Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE STORY OF 'The Year of the Lifeboat', 1974, was one of a triumph of faith: faith in a service of 150 years' standing and of the voluntary principle which is its essence, faith in the capacity of the voluntary workers of the...
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MAY 21ST. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A boy had fallen over the cliff at North Stack, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £3 12s. 6d..
Here and There
There are available from the RNLI Dublin office (10 Merrion Square, Dublin 2) First Day Covers of the following Irish Post Office stamps: Official RNLI cover RNLI commemorative 5p stamp: 50p.
Special cover, with RNLI...
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