LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sale of Old Life-Boats
From time to time the R.N.L.I. is asked about the sale of ex-life-boats, the interest in old life-boats now being considerable. A waiting list of over 400 people was the situation in July of this year.
A private buyer, who...
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Life-Boat on Show In Montevideo
The former Southcnd-on-Sca life-boat which mm forms part of (he I ruguayan life-buat fleet. - View image in PDF
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SEPT. 1ST. - SENNEN COVE, CORNWALL.
A bather had got into difficulties in a rough sea, but the life-boat could find no sign of him and he was believed to have been drowned. - Rewards, £6 7s. 6d..
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FEBRUARY 16TH. - SCARBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. A Halifax bombing aeroplane had been reported in difficulties and her crew were said to have baled out, but no survivors could be found in the sea. - Rewards, £34 14s. 6d..
A Rowing Boat
LIFE-BOAT HIT BOTTOM Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 11.3 a.m.
on iyth January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a rowing boat, 600 yards off the beach, was in apparent difficulty at Holland...
Two Events In June Brought In Funds for Hampstead Garden
Two events in June brought in funds for Hampstead Garden Suburb branch. Bishopswood Bowling Club raised £200 with a day of bowls; most members gave their support and pictured here are just some of the 'team'. Later in the same... - View image in PDF
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Four Double Rescues
IT does not often happen that the same Life-boat goes out to the help of the same j vessel twice over within, a short time, but this has happened recently in the case of four vessels.
On 29th December of last year the,...
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Stability
IN this article it is proposed to explain the nature and action of stability as con- cisely as the subject permits, without introducing technical terms, beyond those essential to definition, or attempting to go beyond the purely mechanical,...
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Earls Court: Peter Holness (R) Shows Mrs Margaret Thatcher Shorelines Cmg Visual Display Computer Link on the Rnli Stantl on That Day It Was Being Operated By Lin
Earls Court: Peter Holness (r) shows Mrs Margaret Thatcher Shorelines CMG visual display computer link on the RNLI stantl. - View image in PDF
On that day it was being operated by Linda Powell of Shoreline office.. - View image in PDF
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Providence
On the 30th October the foreign barque Providence, of Dantzic, ran ashore at West Port, in Machrihannish Bay, Cantyre. The Campbeltown life-boat was brought to the spot from Campbeltown, a distance of 6 miles. Eight of the wrecked crew had...