LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
BRINGING THEM HOME
Towing a stricken boat to the safety of port might seem routine but, in often gruelling conditions, it takes great skill and smart decision making. So what’s involved in a tow?
First, the crew must decide whether or not they need...
Category: Articles
Latch & Batchelor Ltd
STAINLESS STEEL ROPE FOR RIGGING NOMINAL DIAMETER Milli- Inches metres (appro*) STANDING RIGGING RUNNING RIGGING MINIMUM B R E A K I N G LOAD (LBS) 2 2-5 3 4 5 6 7 5/64" 1/8" 5/32" 3/1 6" 1 '4" 9 32" 5,1...
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MARCH 11TH. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. An upturned boat had been reported, but was found to be a large log of timber. - Rewards, £7 5s.
Danmark
The E.S.E. gale of the 30th and 31st January caused several disasters in the vicinity of Ramsgate, and the Life-boat Charles and Susanna Stephens had not returned very long from a fruitless journey when she was called out again.
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Hazardous Passage
FOR a service, in which he had to take his life-boat through a narrow, unchartered channel, infested with rocks, to a trawler whose bow was hard aground, Coxswain John Nicolson of Aith, Shetlands, has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s silver...
Category: Services
Seven Times Alongside Listing Ship
On the evening of 9th November, 1969, the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston life-boat was manoeuvred seven times alongside a severely listingJDanish ship, a service for which Coxswain John Bryan has been awarded the R.N.L.I.'s bronze medal...
Category: Services
A Splendid Ten Foot Model of the Rnli Medina Lifeboat Mountbatten of Burma Is Named By Councillor Mrs Frances Humpherson President of Newton Abbot Branch Lt John Gorrill Chairman of Th
A splendid ten foot model of the RNLI Medina lifeboat Mountbatten of Burma is named by Councillor Mrs Frances Humpherson, president of Newton Abbot branch. Lt John Gorrill, chairman of the branch who once served aboard HMS Kelly under Earl... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat People
WITH deep regret we announce the death on January 24 of Mrs Patricia Rickard.
Mrs Rickard (left) had worked for the RNLI since 1961, was a member of the London ladies' bridge committee and six years ago founded the...
Category: Articles
H.M. Minesweeper Grenadier
JULY 31ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL. At 5.45 in the afternoon a message was received from the coastguard that a minesweeper was approaching, and needed a doctor for a case of suspected appendicitis. A light northeast wind was blowing, and the...
This Is Your Life " When Eamonn Andrews Approached Brian Bevan at the Kodak Photographic Gallery High Holborn Last March It Was the Seventh Time He Had Said These Famous Words to a Li
This is your life . . . " When Eamonn Andrews approached Brian Bevan at the Kodak Photographic Gallery, High Holborn, last March, it was the seventh time he had said these famous words to a lifeboat... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs