LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Caister Station Endangered
There have been two Life-boats at Caister, on the Norfolk coast, one for seventy, the other for sixty years, and they have the magnificent record of 1709 lives rescued from shipwreck.
These two boats lie on the open sandy...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
ElectroMotion
ElectroMotion gives you freedom, independence and winter safety! ElectroMotion mobility vehicle is proven to make life better, especially in winter - that's the conclusive result of our recent survey of 1,000 users, who were asked for...
Category: Advertisement
Martje
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
Martje (1)
Hartlepool, Durham; and Teesmouth, Yorkshire.—About eight o'clock on the evening of the 8th of December, 1954, the Hartlepool coastguard learnt that the motor vessel Martje, of Groningen, was sending distress signals fifty miles...
"Heroes of the Sea." Over a Thousand Pounds Made by a Life-Boat Film
Over a Thousand Pounds made by a Life-boat Film.
IN 1930 British International Pictures made a film called " The Lady from the Sea," in which the principal inci- dent was a life-boat rescue. Part of the scenes...
Category: Articles
Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
The following coxswains and members of life-boat crews have been awarded certificates of service, and in addition those entitled to them by the Institution's regulations have been awarded an annuity or a retirement allowance and a...
Category: Awards
Irb Launches on Service During the Months March, April and May 1971
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aberdovey, Merionethshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Amble, Northumberland Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Bangor, Co. Down Barmouth, Merionethshire Barrow, Lancashire Bembridge, Isle of...
Category: Services
D Class
Length 4.9m (16ft) Beam 2m (6ft 7in) Displacement Approx 745lb Speed 20 knots Endurance 3 hours at max. - View image in PDF
speed Crew 2 or 3 Construction Nylon coated with hypalon. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Freesia, of Grimsby
Motor Life-boat.
ON the 1st January the Motor Life-boat at Stromness, in the Orkneys, performed a fine service which illustrates very clearly the value of motor-power. At 9.15 A.M. the news was received at Stromness from...