LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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t — His GBACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUHBERLAKD, P.O.
Chairman — THOMAS CHAPMAN, ESQ., F.R.S., r.p.
JSlfrtiarg — RICHARD Luwis, of the Inner Temple,...
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The New Fowler Tractor
THE newest type of tractor now being used by the Institution is a develop- ment of the 95 b.h.p. Challenger III diesel crawler tractor made by Messrs.
John Fowler and Company (Leeds) Limited.
The standard...
Category: Articles
July
Launches 64 Lives rescued 28
JULY 2ND. - CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE.
While bound from Montreal for Glasgow with a general cargo the Liverpool steamer Dorelian, of over 6,000 tons, stranded in dense fog on...
Category: Services
(Left) Heavy Weather Is Not a Problem
(left) Heavy weather is not a problem for a well prepared yacht with an experienced crew - but being pooped by a sea like this finds any weakness in the vessel, her equipment and crew. Weymouth's Arun class lifeboat was involved in this... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) Seen from the Air the Piers at the Entrance to Shoreham Harbour
(Right) Seen from the air the piers at the entrance to Shoreham Harbour shows the development of the port over the years. - View image in PDF
The lifeboat station is circled.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Faroese Motor Vessel Mjoanes
MARCH 8TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
At 4.37 in the morning, the coastguard telephoned that a rocket had been fired by a vessel ashore on the west side of Cairnbulg Beacon. She was the Faroese motor vessel Mjoanes,...
The S.S. Valga
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 6.20 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the s.s. Valga of Lenin- grad had asked for the life-boat to take a doctor out to attend to a seaman who had fallen down...
Northfleet
At 11.56 a.m. on ifth March, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor fishing vessel Northfleet with a crew of three, was firing red flares in the Wyre Channel by No. 9 buoy. She had been towing the larger motor...
The Ex-Belgian Tanker Laurent Meeus (1)
OCTOBER 18TH. - FLEETWOOD, AND BARROW, LANCASHIRE. At 4.15 P.M.
the naval authorities asked the Fleetwood life-boat to go to the help of a vessel aground about one hundred yards W. by N. of Shell Wharf Buoy, and the motor...
Launching Ceremonies of New Motor Life-Boats
Scarborough, Bomber (Spurn Point), Hartlepool, Selsey and Bognor, Sennen Cove, New Brighton.
DURING the summer of this year the launching ceremonies have taken place of six Motor Life-boats.
Category: Inaugurations