LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Capsizing Tests on 44-002
As we closed for press the life-boat 44-002 John F. Kennedy, the first of the Institution's fleet of six 44-ft. steel life-boats, was undergoing trials at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Here she is shown during capsizing and self-righting tests at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Prevention of Wrecks and Saving Life from Shipwreck
WE have on different occasions in this Journal remarked on'what we conceived to be the imperfection, when taken as a whole, of the present system for rescuing shipwrecked persons from drowning; that whilst, in some localities, most...
Category: Articles
Gloamin'
— On the morning of the llth January a man was injured on board the local fishing boat Gloamin'. There was not suffi- cient water for the boat to get into harbour and she made distress signals.
The crew of the...
Dixie
Torbay, Devon.—At 9.22 on the night of the 17th of October, 1953, the Brixham coastguard rang up to say that two men and a five-year-old boy had left Paignton for a fishing trip at 4.30 in the motor launch Dixie, but had not returned. As no...
The Motor Fishing Coble White Lady
Sunderland, Co. Durham.—The motor life-boat Edward and Isabella Irttiin was launched at 11.20 P.M. on the 26th October, and returned after a fruitless search for a fishing boat with two men on board, at 4 A.M. on the 27th. She was being...
Greyling
'Dismasted5 yacht found sailing after long search Crew member Alan Channell of the Poole lifeboat Inner Wheel has been sent a letter of thanks signed by the Chief of Operations following a service in which he was put aboard a yacht off...
Vessels
Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...
The Steamers Matje and Dunvegan
Other Launches on the Night of the 28th.
On the opposite side of Anglesey to Moelfre and Beaumaris. the two Holyhead Life-boats were also out for the greater part of the night, the Steam Life-boat being launched twice, the...
Above: Visitors Watch the Atlantic 21
Above: Vjsitors watch ,he Atlantic 21 right , herself after a deliberate capsize. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Pulled from the brink
28 April: Tower A drowning man was pulled from the River Thames and resuscitated by crew and the police after he was spotted floating face down in the water. Helmsman Kevin Maynard explains: ‘One of the police...
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