LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Newly-Invented Sounding Instrument
THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
Category: Articles
Edward Macbean & Co Ltd
It looks great and feels even better because Macbean sailing wear is condensation free, it keeps you dry inside as well as out. Light, soft, supple, 100% waterproof and tough enough to withstand the roughest crossing! From leading chandlers,...
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The Norwegian Motor Ship Oslo Fjord, and British Officer
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...
Fishing Boats (1)
CULLERCOATS.—After the fishing-boats had left the harbour on the morning of the 13th February, a high sea sprung up, rendering it dangerous for the boats to return. It was therefore considered expedient to launch the Life-boat Gooperator No,...
The R.A.F.'s Thanks.
At the end t September the Institution received another letter from the Air Council thanking it for the help which it had given in air-sea rescue work. That help, the Council sai.i had been 'of the greatest value to the Royal Air...
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SAFETY NET
Thanks to your support, the RNLI is helping to make the seas a safer place for the people who put fish on our tables
Commercial fishing in the cold, rough seas around the UK and Republic of Ireland is a hazardous...
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Pilot Me II
Whitby, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 8th of January, 1949, the local fishing boat Pilot Me II was at sea.
The wind increased rapidly until it was blowing strongly from the north-west, with a heavy sea breaking on the...
Killed on Service. Death of the Scarborough Bowman
AT 11.14 on the morning of the 9th of December, 1951, the news came to the Scarborough life-boat station that a ship was sinking twenty-six and a half miles east by north of Scarborough.
She was a Dutch motor vessel of 499...
Category: Services
General Council of the Ladies' Life-Boat Guild
H.R.H. The Prince of Wales, and H.R.H. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, attend the First Meeting.
THE first meeting of the General Council of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild was held on 23rd November last at Hampden...
Category: Meetings
William Robson
Coxswain at North Sunderland from 18— to 1867,. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs