LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The S.S. Brookside
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 31st of March, 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that he had intercepted a wireless message from the S.S.
Brookside, of Sunderland, which said...
The Finnish Lifeboat Service
SERVICE THE following impressions of the Finnish Life-boat Society obtained on a recent visit to Finland are contributed by Lt-Commander The Hon. Greville Howard, VRD, RNR, a vice-president of the RNLI.
He writes:...
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The Song of the Life-Boat's Crew
WE are indebted to THOMAS GRAY, Esq., the talented Assistant Secretary of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, for the following interesting song adapted to the well-known music " Heart of Oak." Messrs. CHAPPELL of Bond...
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The Crew
30 years, 250 rescues later Tom Robertson, the honorary secretary of the Queensferry lifeboat station, received a presentation of binoculars and a certificate at the annual general meeting of the RNLI in Scotland, for 30 years'...
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Auxiliary Rescue-boats
In 1941 the Air Ministry asked the Institution if it could open more stations on the west coast of Ireland for the help of aeroplanes which were forced down by bad weather, failure of fuel or injury in battle, as they flew in from the...
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Contents
The LifeboatSpring 1990 Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 511 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD MNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...
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The Life-Boat Work
THE following account of a shipwreck on our coast, and a gallant rescue by a Life-boat, has been taken from a new work,' Under one Hoof/ * by Mr. JAMBS PAYN, the well-known author, whose genius is determined to leave some marks on our...
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Cb Or Vhf? the Coastguard's View
OVER THE PAST five years, HM Coastguard has been provided with a great deal of very sophisticated VHF radio equipment to cover the International distress and calling frequency and other frequencies in the marine band. This system now covers...
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Knola
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 10.30 on the night of the 28th of July, 1956, the St. Peter Port signal station re- ported that a yacht was on the rocks in Saint Bay. The life-boat Euphro- syne Kendal put out at 10.54 with the bowman in charge....