LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes on the Quarter
TWENTY-ONE nations were represented at the llth international life-boat conference, which was held in New York City from 16th to 20th May, newcomers to the conference being the Bahamas, the Philippines, and South...
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Services of Life-Boats
NORFOLK LIFE-BOATS.—At daybreak, on Sunday, the 23rd of Feb. last, the wind plowing heavily from the N.N.E. with thick storms of rain and sleet, the sloop Hannah, of Gainsborough, laden with a general cargo bound to London, was observed by...
Category: Services
An American Thunderjet Fighter (2)
Ramsgate, Walmer, and Dover, Kent.
—At 10.8 in the morning of the 13th of September, 1951, the Ramsgate coastguard telephoned to the Rams- gate life-boat station that an aeroplane, an American Thunderjet fighter, had...
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AUGUST 27TH. - BERWICK - ON - TWEED, NORTHUMBERLAND. A boy had been reported floating out to sea on an air cushion, but what had been seen was a floating log.- Rewards, £5 1s..
Alisdair
The Humber, Yorkshire. — At about 7.45 on the morning of the 13th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported a vessel aground two and a half miles north-north-west of Donna Nook, and the motor life-boat Milburn, on tem- porary duty at the...
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Station to station
Lifeboat superfan Harry Mascall is celebrating an important milestone on his mission to visit every one of the RNLI’s 237 stations. The 8-year-old Storm Force member from Cheshire enjoyed When Connie Richards,...
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A Small Tank Steamer
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—23rd November, 1938. A small tank steamer, with her engine broken down, had dragged her anchor near the West Sunk Sands, but she did not need help.
—Rewards, £24 19s..
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St. Peter Port, Guernsey. At 3.45 p.m. on 8th October, 1965, the States maintenance engineer notified the deputy harbourmaster that the States of Guernsey launch St. Anne had found it impossible to take three maintenance men off the Platte...
Feature Tamar Tales
As work on the Tamar class lifeboat design gathers pace, Neil Chaplin, RNLI principal naval architect, gives the Lifeboat a look behind the scenes. We also follow the introduction of a radical new electronics system that could herald a step...
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The United States' Life-Saving Service
IN the Number (115) of the Life-boat Journal for February, 1880, there appeared a brief description of the means provided for the Pre- servation of Life from Shipwreck in the United States of America, not only on their sea coasts but on the...
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