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Greathead's Original Life-Boat

Date: September 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 06

AT a time when great and, we trust, successful efforts are making to improve our life-boats, it is but right to put on record some facts connected with the first life-boat ever used in this country, the credit of which belongs to HENRY...

Category: Articles

Elise

Date: November 1883

Volume: 12

Issue: 130

PLYMOUTH.—At about 3 A.M. on the 2nd September, during a strong gale from the S. and a heavy sea, the Norwegian barque EKs« entered Plymouth Sound for shelter, and let go both her anchors. One chain parted immediately, and the vessel...

Letters

Date: Autumn 1985

Volume: 49

Issue: 494

First in the world I was most interested to read the article on Lionel Lukin in the summer number of THE LIFEBOAT. I see that the author is a member of the Hythe branch of the RNLI. If he has not already read the article on Lionel Lukin...

Category: Correspondence

Ross Lion

Date: September 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 381

Tynemouth, Northumberland. •— At 11.30 on the night of the 16th of April, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a trawler had reported that one of her crew had injured his hand badly and urgently needed hospital treat- ment. The...

A Small Boat

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

Outboard failed A SMALL BOAT which had fired a hand flare off Crackington Haven was reported to the honorary secretary of Bude lifeboat station by Hartland Coastguard at 1500 on Saturday May 29. Maroons were fired and at 1505 the D class...

Paris

Date: Summer 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 545

Fire aboarcLSpanish cargo vesselLifeboats and their crews are often called on to work with the other emergency services and that includes the Fire Service when their work takes them beyond the range of their land-bound...

(Below Right) Flattening Out to a Planing Surface Aft the Sponson Which Gives the Medina Her Stability Is Divided Into Watertight Compartments By Inner Baffles

Date: Winter 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 471

(Below, right) . . . flattening out to a planing surface aft. The sponson, which gives the Medina her stability, is divided into watertight compartments by inner baffles.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Patrol Vessel Cramond Island

Date: 1941

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1941

APRIL 2ND. - EYEMOUTH AND ST.

ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE. At 2.20 in the afternoon a message was received at Eyemouth that a patrol vessel had been attacked and sunk by enemy aeroplanes about three miles out, and at 2.35 the motor...

Ontario, of Liverpool

Date: January 1865

Volume: 05

Issue: 55

On Sunday, the 16th October, the steam-ship Ontario, of Liverpool, struck on the Hasborough Sand, on the Norfolk eoa,st, during a strong breeze from the W.N.W. The Caister life-boat went off to her assistance ; but her services were declined...

Thanks to Stavros

Date: Autumn 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 585

RNLI lifeguards patrolled beaches in Wales this year, with substantial support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. Formed in 1996 on the death of the eponymous Greek shipping magnate, the foundation gave a very generous grant to pay for...

Category: Articles