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The Self-Righting Principle In Life-Boats

Date: January 1856

Volume: 02

Issue: 19

Ls December 1849 one of the South Shields life-boats upset alongside a wrecked vessel on the Herd Sand, on which occasion 20 out of 24 men who formed the crew of the boat, perished. This melancholy accident, which in one moment prematurely...

Category: Articles

Technical Developments

Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

first inflatables were introduced in 1962, particularly as regards floorboards and the construction and maintenance of the craft.

In 1968 the Institution commissioned the design of a fast rigid hull for inshore...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Service In 1952

Date: Winter 1953

Volume: 33

Issue: 364

FOR the third year, in the seven years since the war ended, the Life-boat Service set up a new record. In 1952 its boats went out to the rescue 657 times. That is more than ever before in time of peace, and though the figure is considerably...

Category: Articles

The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom

Date: August 1878

Volume: 10

Issue: 109

XXXVIII.—WALMER.

Centurion, 36 feet long, 9 feet 4 inches beam, 12 oars.

TOWARDS the end of the year 1856 a Life-boat was placed on this station by the Institution, in aid of which the Royal Thames Yacht...

Category: Articles

The Oil Rig Endeavour

Date: March 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 415

TOOK INJURED MAN OFF OIL RIG At 7.15 p.m. on 22nd November, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that a man aboard the oil rig Endeavour needed medical attention for injuries. The life-boat James and Catherine MacFarlane,...

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Date: March 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 411

TAKEN TO HOSPITAL At 6 p.m. on 23rd December, 1964, the local doctor told the honorary secretary that he had a patient requiring hospital treatment and as no other boat was available requested the use of the life-boat.

The...

Maureen

Date: September 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 401

LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY TILL FISHING VESSEL REFLOATS Stronsay, Orkneys. At 5.20 on the afternoon of the 17th May, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a fishing boat was ashore at Torness Point. At 5.46 the life-boat J.J.K.S...

A Sailing Dinghy

Date: March 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 407

MAN WAS MISSING Torbay, South Devon. At 3.8 p.m.

on ist October, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a small sailing dinghy had capsized off Livermead Beach. A further message was received that two men had...

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Date: December 1961

Volume: 36

Issue: 398

Galway Bay. At two o'clock on the night of the 9th September, 1961, the local medical officer asked for the use of the life-boat to bring a sick child from Inishmaan to the mainland at Rossaveel. As no other suitable boat was available,...

Broughty Ferry (Dundee):

Date: Autumn 1983

Volume: 48

Issue: 486

Broughty Ferry (Dundee): After the handing over on Saturday, October 1, 1983, of the second D class inflatable lifeboat funded by a promotion jointly undertaken in Scotland by Ind Coope and the Co-op, the new inflatable lifeboat took part in... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs