LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Commentary
In place of the usual Notes of the Quarter there appears in this number an appeal by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I.
In other parts of this number there appear as usual accounts of services by the crews of life-boats and IRBs....
Category: Articles
Sethon (1)
Islay, Hebrides.—At 3.20 on the morn- ing of the 16th of March, 1957, the Kilchoman coastguard telephoned that attempts were being made to refloat the trawler Sethon, of Fleetwood, which had gone aground fifteen days earlier in the Sound of...
An Ex-R.A.F. Boat and a Motor Fishing Vessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire, and The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—At 10.45 on the night of the 26th of December, 1951, the Tenby coastguard telephoned the Tenby life-boat station that the Helwick Lightvessel had reported that an ex-R.A.F. boat, which...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment at this new and rising watering-place on the coast of Essex— the local residents being very desirous to AND NEW LIFE-BOATS.
be...
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Life-Boat Services In 1905
Lives I saved.
Li 23 10 Adalina, fishing vessel, of Gravelines—stood by vessel.
Advance, ketch, of Bideford Amelia Ann, ketch, of Goo]e— rendered assistance.
A my, barge, of Bideford—...
Category: Services
The New U.S. 44-Foot Steel Life-Boat
The following extract was taken from a paper presented to the ninth international life-boat conference in Edinburgh, 1963, by Lieut.-Commander Robert W. Witter, Chief, Boat Section, Naval Engineering Division, United States Coast Guard.<...
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Quality Training for Quality Crew
As part of its mission to save lives at sea, the RNLl insists on top level training for lifeboat crews. The hope is that the better trained the lifeboat crews are, the more lives will be saved and the less likely it is that the crews...
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Two Brave Life-Savers. Portlethen, Kincardineshire, and Southwold, Suffolk
Portlethen, Kincardineshire, and Southwold, Suffolk.
ON 26th November, 1924, two acts of great individual gallantry were per- formed in rescuing life from vessels stranded near the shore. One was on the rocky coast of...
Category: Services
Letters
'There is another type of courage...
...the stoic acceptance of wives, husbands, partners and parents who never know whether their loved ones will return from a shout.'Another special kind of courage The courage of...
Category: Correspondence
The "Life-Boat Saturday" Movement
IN the last issue of the Life-boat Journal we had the satisfaction to announce to our readers that H.E.H. the DUKE or YORK had graciously accepted the post of President of the Institution's " Life-boat Saturday " Fund, and we...
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