LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Failsafe Part 1- Capsizing and Righting By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.
The first of two tremendous seas, a...
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Lifeboat Services
Fisherman plucked to safety by D class as night falls T he three crew members of Sunderland's D class inshore lifeboat received a framed letter of thanks from David Acland, the RNLI's Chairman following a service in poor weather and...
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Lifeboat Launches
Station-by-station lifeboat launches for June and July 1997 Aberdeen. Grampian Arun: Jun 13 and Jul 8 D Class: Jul 8 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jun 8, 29 and Jul 24 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Jun 1 (three times), 8, 16, 19,22,29.30,...
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Built to Order Built to Last
The Atlantic 21 has to be tough and reliable - the lives of survivors and crew depend on it. Claire Judd, Assistant Editor, visited the RNLI's Inshore Lifeboat Centre, Cowes, to investigate the work that goes into the construction of...
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Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen. Grampian 54ft Amn ON 1050: July 3 D class: July 5 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: June 17, 18,26, July 7, 15 and 30 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: July 22 Aith, Shetland 52ft Arun ON 1100: July 7 Aldeburgh, Suffolk 37ft 6in Rather...
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Mr. Anthony Eden on the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to May 31st, 1951 - 77,369 Mr. Anthony Eden on the Life-boat Service* OUR British race...
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 5.45 P.M.
on the 10th January, 1938, the life-boat mechanic heard cries for help, appar- ently from a trawler on the west side of the Wyre Channel, and he, the...
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Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 229, 235 and 242, the following launches on service were made during the months March, April and May, 1970, inclusive: Aberdeen ...
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Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in fullonpages 688, 691, 698, the following launches on service were made during the months March, April and May 1969, inclusive: Aberdeen -...
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Head Protection for Lifeboat Crews By Stuart Welford Btbch Mimcche Mrina Research and Development Officer Rnli
Research and Development Officer, RNLI IMAGINE A JANUARY AFTERNOON. Not much wind, but a cold front forecast; the light will fade in a couple of hours; wind and sea will be getting up and the temperature is dropping all the...
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