LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November and December, 1938, and January, 1939, Meetings of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Whitstable, Kent.—At about 11.30 A.M., on the 2nd October, 1938, the sailing dinghy Wana, of Whitstable, with one man on board, capsized about half a mile off Swale Cliff Rock. A moderate to fresh, squally...
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Then And Now
tHen AnD nOw Capital gains In 1927, London ‘life-boat’ day was a huge operation, supported by the Lord Mayor of London and many of the borough mayors. Four thousand collectors, mainly women, worked from 150 temporary...
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Service to a Tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
AT 3.40 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962 the honorary secre- tary of the Clovelly life-boat station, Mr. J. C. Hilton, learnt from the coast- guard that a tug was firing red flares three miles north-west of Hartland Point. Five...
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Josephine
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 4.27 a.m. on 3Oth August, 1965, the Norwegian motor vessel Helene was reported to have a motor yacht in tow, and to have asked to be relieved of the tow at the Nab. The coastguard was not successful in finding a...
Pulled from the brink
28 April: Tower A drowning man was pulled from the River Thames and resuscitated by crew and the police after he was spotted floating face down in the water. Helmsman Kevin Maynard explains: ‘One of the police...
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Assessment of Rates on Life-Boathouses
AT the report stage and third reading of the Rating and Valuation (Miscel- laneous Provisions) Bill in the House of Lords on the 21st of July, 1955, Earl Howe, Deputy Chairman of the Insti- tution, moved, after clause 7, to insert the...
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Quickstep
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At two in the afternoon of the 4th of Novem- ber, 1951, the Foreland coastguard telephoned that a small sailing boat making for Bembridge was in distress off Seaview and at 2.15 the life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched...
The American Ketch Erisca
At 7.15 p.m. on i3th September, 1966, the vessel Commodore Charles H. Smith reported having picked up two survivors from a small ketch which they had then taken in tow. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was launched at 8.20 in a light west north...