LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part II: on the Stocks
TRADITIONALLY, when building a boat in wood, the first operation is the laying down of the keel from which is built up a framework of stem, transom, bulkheads and other transverse and longitudinal members. When building a small boat in steel...
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Flower Fantasy
The Cutty Sark Society has kindly agreed that the lower deck of the famous clipper Cutty Sark at Greenwich can be used as a setting for a Life-boat Fantasy in Flowers to raise funds for the R.N.L.I. The fantasy will consist of 20 flower...
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Fortieth Anniversary of the Service to the "Eider."
ON the night of Sunday, the 31st Janu- ary, 1892, the four-masted steamer Eider, of Bremen, of 4,719 tons, the Norddeutscher Lloyd, stranded on the reef of rocks in the Isle of Wight, known as Atherfield Ledge. There was a thick fog, the...
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Pisces
YACHT ON THE ROCKS When a small motor yacht grounded on Longnose Ledge off Kent on 19thJuly, 1971, Margate Coastguard reported at 12.34 a.m. that the vessel was seriously damaged and was in danger of sinking. The crew could be heard shouting...
Fair Maiden
Eastbourne, Sussex.—At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 16th of June, 1956, the police informed the coxswain that a yacht was firing flares in Normans Bay. The life-boat Beryl Tollemache was launched at 3.23 in a rough sea with a moderate...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 8 February 1993 show that during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 5,439 times (an average of more than 14 launches a day) 1,371 lives have been saved (an average of more than 3 each...
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Staronia
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire - At 1.42 a.m. on 2nd August, 1966, a vessel was reported ashore off Cairnbulg point.
There was a slight sea. It was high water.
The life-boat The Duchess of Kent proceeded at...
Diamond Dove
Six saved from power boat LymeRegis South West Division The Lyme Regis Atlantic 21 Independent Forester Benevolence rescued six people on 22 May 1988 in a short but difficult service when a small power boat lost engine power and was being...
Classification of Services By Inshore Rescue Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies, etc.
Landing...
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Davenport
May Meeting.
Eastbourne, Sussex.—On the morning of the 27th February a man reported that he had seen a vessel showing flares. She was the barge Davenport, of Ipswich, bound with a crew of three, and cargo of firebricks,...