LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Finnish Lifeboat Service
SERVICE THE following impressions of the Finnish Life-boat Society obtained on a recent visit to Finland are contributed by Lt-Commander The Hon. Greville Howard, VRD, RNR, a vice-president of the RNLI.
He writes:...
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Demetra
BERWICK - on - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—On Sunday morning the 1st June, while a north-easterly gale was raging, accompanied by a heavy sea, the coastguard look-out man observed a barque, about six miles off, flying signals...
A Yacht (1)
Weymouth, Dorsetshire.-—1st June, 1938. A yacht was in difficulties off Kimmeridge, but her crew got ashore unaided.—Rewards, £8 15s..
Central Operations/Information Room Rnli Headquarters Poole
CALLERS TO THE CENTRAL OPERATIONS/ INFORMATION ROOM on the fourth floor of the RNLFs headquarters are frequent. During a typical morning, the chief of operations may wish to be given particulars of recent lifeboat passages, the trials...
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Two Small Vessels, Whim and Saucy Lass
Again on the 14th November, two small vessels, the pilot cutter IVhim, and the lugger Saucy Lass, were seen to be at anchor on the weather side of the Holm Sand, in an extremely dangerous position, and with sig- nals of distress flying. A...
An Aeroplane and Dinghy
FEBRUARY 9TH. - KILLYBEGS, CO. DONEGAL. At 4.45 in the afternoon the military look-out post at Mullaghmore telephoned that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea one mile from the post, and that the airmen were taking to their dinghy. A...
Wreck of the "Endeavour."
ON the 6th of May last a small schooner, the Endeavour, of Ipswich, was driven on shore in Polkerris Bay, about one mile north-west of Fowey, on the south coast of Cornwall. As soon as her perilous situa- tion was observed, the Coast-guard...
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Anti-Fouling Composition
THE Institution uses on a number of its life-boats which lie afloat the Torpedo Plastik Anti-Fouling Com- position made by British Paints. The name of this composition has been changed to Koplastik Anti-fouling.
The firm...
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The S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm (1)
Montrose, and Broughty Ferry, Angus, Eyemouth, Berwickshire, and Gourdon,Kincardineshire.—At 4.52 in the after- noon of the 7th of March, 1952, the S.S. Rosso, of Stockholm, bound for Sweden from Methie, wirelessed that she was leaking...
Rock and roller rescue
During a surfing competition, one bodyboarder got more excitement than he’d bargained for
The setting
During the Volcom surfing contest on 10 September...
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