LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Thomas Stratton
POINT OF AYR.—The dandy Thomas Stratton, of Maldon, bound from Swansea for Mostyn, laden with burnt ore, stranded on the West Hoyle Bank in a strong breeze from N.W., and a choppy, breaking sea on the 23rd July. She commenced to leak, and...
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Uphill all the Way by Alan Sears published by Adlard Coles Nautical at £14.99 ISBN 0-7136-4876-7 Completing a 30,000-mile race round the world and against the prevailing winds must bring a great feeling of personal satisfaction to those...
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Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
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The Life-Boat
The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat...
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Life-Boat Pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland
THE Institution has its own pavilion at the Empire Exhibition, Scotland, 1938, at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. The pavilion has been built for the Institu- tion by Sir John Burnet, Tait & Larne, architects of the...
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The Sidney Smith
SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX.—While a moderate gale was blowing from the E., accompanied by a rough sea and rain squalls, on the 14th May, the coxswain of the Life-boat Jamet Stevent No. 9, was informed that the light-vessel was firing signal guns...
Scarab
NEAR SHIVERING SAND Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 6.6 p.m.
29th December, 1965, the coastguard reported that a small vessel was firing red flares near the Shivering Sand towers.
The life-boat Greater London...
Eleven Years on a Look at the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat Some of Those Who Know Her Well
THE ATLANTIC 21 rigid inflatable has proved one of the most successful of the Institution's modern lifeboats and 30 are now on station. With an overall length of 22ft 9in, a rigid GRP hull and inflatable neoprene tube 'bulwarks',...
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The Lowestoft Trawler Boston Pegasus
Humber, Yorkshire. At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 30th of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the coxswain superintendent that a trawler with an injured man on board was making for the Humber and that the services of a doctor were needed...
Page & Moy
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