LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
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Gower Pride
Saviours at the sand When faced with 3m swells, notorious sandbanks and a drifting, rolling fishing vessel, it cannot be easy to stay calm. But the composure and courage of a helmsman and her crew in just such conditions saved two lives -...
Reaper
Seven saved ...along with an historic boatIn the early hours of 8 August 2001, the historic fishing vessel Reaper was on passage from Anstruther to Hartlepool in gale force conditions and rough seas. The 100-year-old herring drifter was...
Miss Anne Norris,
Miss Anne Norris, president of Sherborne branch since 1979 having served as its first chairman when the branch was formed in 1973. Until the formation of the branch she had previously been president of the Sherborne ladies lifeboat...
Category: Obituaries
A Small Boat
SUNDERLAND, SOUTH PIER.—On Sunday morning, 2nd September, ' three young men put off in a small boat from Sunder land for a pleasure trip. When they started the wind was blowing from the N.W. and the sea was choppy, but afterwards the...
Venus II
PROPELLER WAS FOULED At 8.40 a.m. on ist June, 1964, the local motor fishing vessel Venus II reported to Whitby harbour by radio telephone that she had fouled her propeller with crab pots. Twenty minutes later the life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth...
Sancho Panza
HARWICH. — The schooner Sancho Panza, of Faversham, coal-laden from Sander land for Ramsgate, broke adrift from her anchors in a whole gale from N.E. and a very heavy sea, and stranded on the Fye Sands on the morning of the 23rd January. She...
Our Inland Branches. Rochdale
ROCHDALE is built on both banks of the River Roach, whence it derives its name; but the Rochdale of the present day differs widely from that of barely one hundred years ago. Then this quaint old town of industry and traffic occupied a...
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Remembering Rohilla
When Titanic survivor Mary Roberts climbed aboard a hospital steamship in October 1914, she hoped for a relatively straightforward passage to France. But what happened next put over 200 lives in danger – and made history...
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The Salvors of Property on the English Coasts
« Oh! wad some Power the glftle gie us To see oursels as others see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us." Burns.
THERE is no community, and perhaps no single individual, who may not derive advantage from the...
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