LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lord Hamilton
AT half-past two in the afternoon, of 12th February last, the Ramsgate Lifeboat and tug were called out by a message from the Coast Guard that a vessel— found afterwards to be the ketch Lord Hamilton—was ashore on the north-east part of the...
The Old Coxswain
THERE he stands, somewhat apart from the rest, his eyes straining in the haze to watch her disappearing form. The Life-boat has been launched, and— amazing, incredible, as it yet seems to his mind—launched without him 1 For half a century he...
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From Foreign Societies
Japan.
THE Imperial Japanese Life-saving Institution issued in March of this year a pamphlet, written in English, giving a brief history of the Japanese Life-boat Service since the chief priest of the Kotohira Shrine in the...
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Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE RNLI'S ACCOUNTS for 1975 are not complete at the time of going to press, hut it is certain that expenditure will have exceeded income. In other words there w i l l he a deficit which will have to he made good.
The...
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Practice Launches
AT the Conference of Life-boat Workers held at Bristol on June 18th, of which a report appears on page 485, one of the speakers pointed out how much it would interest the workers of inland Branches to see Life-boats afloat, and he asked if...
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(Above) One of the Illustrations from the Booklet Safety on the Sea
(Above) One of the illustrations from the booklet Safety On The Sea, produced by the RNLI for the Sea Safety Liaison Working Group, comprised of six of the major organisations involved in marine use and safety. Under the cartoon is a list of... - View image in PDF
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Ronleo
Engine failure in gale THE CREW OF Teesmouth lifeboat assembled at the boathouse on the afternoon of Saturday October 20, 1984, after a fishing vessel, Ronleo, had reported that she was in need of assistance, sixand a quarter miles east...
Notes of the Quarter
A NUMBER of important developments took pJace during the late summer of 1963 in the process, which is a con- tinuous and unending one, of moderniz- ing and improving the life-boat fleet.
A decision was taken to install...
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Shoreline
JUST A YEAR AGO—that was when the appeal to raise the cost of a Rother class lifeboat to be named Shoreline was first launched. And what has happened in those twelve months? Well, for a start, membership has risen by neatly a third, from...
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