LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Resurga
At 11.30 A.M.
on the 28th August a barge was observed riding at anchor about a quarter of a mile from the shore between. Orfordness and Aldeburgh. She was labouring heavily, with the sea washing over...
Life-Boat Saturday
SUCH serious problems as the " Unem- ployed " and the stagnation and alleged decline of trade, added to the general unrest throughout Europe on account of the Russo-Japanese war, now happily at an end, one and all rendered the self...
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The S.S. Shaw
THURSO AND WICK, CUTHNESS-SHIRE.— While a moderate breeze was blowing from 8., accompanied by a rough sea, on the 2nd May, the coxswain of the Wick Life-boat received notice, at 6.30 A.M., that a steamer was aground at the back of the North...
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Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Ix—Closed Circuits
FIRST A CORRECTION: In part VIII of this article an error appeared in the size given for the keel bolts. The ballast keel of the Rother is in fact fixed with 12mm bolts.
The photographs on this page show work progressing on...
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Ireland's Influence
IRELAND succeeds in making even her visitors Irish. We have had a report from Ireland from one of our organisers, who is not an Irishman, which begins : " In reply to my letter addressed to the old Honorary Treasurer (who had not...
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Vives
SICK RADIO OPERATOR BROUGHT ASHORE Holyhead, Anglesey. At 4.3 on the afternoon of the 10th June, 1963, Holyhead coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor vessel Vives of London was near the breakwater end and needed help. The...
Life-Boats for the Port of London
THE following letter has been addressed to some of the Metropolitan Daily and Weekly Papers, on behalf of an object which is de- serving of every support from the Citizens of London:— " Sir,—I am directed by the Committee of the...
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Inveresk
ABERSOCH.—During the gale of the 7th October, the barque Inveresk, of and for Liverpool from Nova Scotia, was seen running under bare poles direct for the east end of St. Patrick's Causeway. The Life-boat Mabel Louisa proceeded to her...
Enfant de Bretagne (1)
Trawler taking water A FRENCH TRAWLER, Enfant de Bretagne, broadcast a Mayday call on the afternoon of Tuesday, December 2, 1975, saying that she was taking water in heavy weather in position 320°M 18 miles from St Ives Head. This...