LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
District Conferences. The Isle of Wight and Exeter
Two conferences were held in the Southwestern District during January. The first, at Newport, Isle of Wight, was a conference of Life-boat workers in the Island, and the second, at Exeter, of Life-boat workers in Cornwall and Devonshire,...
Category: Articles
Protective Clothing
A GREAT PROBLEM is posed by protective clothing. 'Oilskins' made of a single layer of waterproof material will keep out the wet, but, because of the difference in temperature between the outside atmosphere and the body heat, and...
Category: Articles
Humbug
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 8.1 p.m.
on 3rd September, 1967, the coastguard informed the coxswain that a yacht was in difficulties with engine trouble. The h'fe-boat Greater London II (Civil Service No. 30) was launched...
Brooke Marine Ltd
Brooke Marine Limited SHIPBUILDERS-ENGINEERS AND CONSULTING NAVAL ARCHITECTS ESTABLISHED 1874 THAMES Type 50 ft Self-Righting Length overall 50' 0" Beam 14' 6* Displacement 23.5 tons Fuel Capacity 400 imp, gallons Twin General...
Category: Advertisement
Kate
WHITEHAVEN.—On the evening of the 17th September about 5 o'clock, at about half tide, there was a strong southwesterly wind and a heavy sea. The schooner Kate, of Peel, 122 tons register,was coming into Whitehaven Harbour light, for coal...
Charles P. Knight
CLOVELLY, NORTH DEVON.—While a moderate to strong gale was blowing on the 4th October, accompanied by a heavy sea, a vessel was seen by the Coastguard at the Watch Tower Station, and although she had no signal of distress flying she appeared...
The S.S. Foam Queen and another Boat
NOVEMBER 3RD. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At eight in the morning the life-boat station received a message from the Fairlight coastguard that a steamer was sinking one mile south of Hastings. A moderate south-byeast wind was...
Awards to Honorary Workers
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Princess Manna, Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the Royal National Life-boat Institution, has presented a signed photograph of herself to Mrs. B. A. Holding, of Learning- ton, who became honorary...
Category: Awards
Fig 5: New Sacrificial Anodes Are Fitted to Afloat Boats Each Year the Wastage Caused By Electrolytic Action Can Be Seen By Comparing New Anode With Old One Just Taken O
Fig. 3: Buoyancy air cases, each shaped to fit and marked with its position, are taken out when opening up the hull for examination at partial and complete survey . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Caister Station Endangered
There have been two Life-boats at Caister, on the Norfolk coast, one for seventy, the other for sixty years, and they have the magnificent record of 1709 lives rescued from shipwreck.
These two boats lie on the open sandy...
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