LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded on pages 491, 506, 515, the following launches on service were made during the months June to August, 1968, inclusive.
Aberdeen -...
Category: Services
Life-Boot Launches on Service During the Months September, October and November, 1970
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aith, Shetland Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Anstruther, Fife Appledore, North Devon Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Co. Wicklow Barmouth, Merionethshire Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow,...
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People and Places
In appreciation...
Back in September 1992 Andrew McDonald was sailing his father's yacht Whisky Mac when she ran into trouble near the Channel Islands - see The Lifeboat, Winter 1992/3 - and the Alderney lifeboat was...
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New Inventions
THE FAREHAM LIFE-BOAT.—A novel description of life-boat, to which the above appellation is given by its designer, has been recently patented.
It is the invention of the Rev. E. L. BERTHON, M.A., of Fareham, and is...
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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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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SCARBOROUGH.—The Institution has sent a new 37 feet, twelve oared Life-boat •with transporting carriage to this well- known port and watering place, the cost having been provided by HERBERT A. FOSTER, Esq., of Queensbury Works, Bradford, and...
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Drill
LIFE-BOAT crews are generally such experienced boatmen that the necessity for drill is not apparent to them, and the quarterly exercise at some stations is apt to degenerate into a somewhat perfunctory proceeding which does not strike...
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The Word "National" In Our Title
AT first sight it might seem quite unnecessary to explain the meaning of a word which is so descriptive and so obvious in its application to the work of the Institution as the word " National." The operations of the Life-boat...
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Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels In 1937 and Numbers of the Fleets
DURING 1937 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 21 British vessels.
Four of these services were by France, 2 by Iceland, 1 by Holland, 1 by Belgium, 1 by Norway and 15 by the United...
Category: Services
The Life-Boatman's Log
France Honours the Life-boat Service A Decoration for a Cornish ex-Coxswain ON the 14th of July last, a reception was held at University College, South- ampton to mark the celebrations of France's national day, Le Quatorze...
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