Weymouth. Dorset.—At 1.12 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1956, a local sailing club asked if the life- boat would put off to the help of the yacht Marzealine, of Le Havre, which, after going ashore, had refloated but was in danger of...
IN THE AUTUMN issue we published two pictures illustrating lifeboat propeller tunnel construction.
Here to round off the story is a photograph of the same detail in a completed 48' 6" Solent slipway lifeboat. Note...
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ON 18th October the Motor Life-boat at St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly, saved a life, by acting as an ambulance. A girl of fifteen had developed acute appendicitis and an immediate operation was necessary. There is no hospital in the Isles...
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Some of my best and most exciting memories have been stirred by your feature Then and Now.
Then: I lived in Hastings as a small girl in the 1950s, and remember the sound of the maroon followed by the footsteps of Coxswain...
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IT is just a year (vide Life-boat Journal, February, 1898) since a description was given in these pages of the steam Life- boat Queen, which was sent to her station at New Brighton in October, 1897. After the launch of that boat and before...
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Logwatch, a new electronic navigational instrument made by the marine equipment division of R. P. Jeffers and Company, has recently been evaluated by the RNLI design department. It is an electronic digital log with an integral chronometer...
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STONEHAVEN.—The barge Der Zehnte Juni, of South Shields, bound from Sunderland for Aberdeen, with a cargo of coal, experienced a good deal of stormy weather on her voyage, and on the 15th March, she was labouring heavily in the teeth of a...