LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
New Life-Boats
Two new self-righting steel life-boats, each nearly 50 ft. in length and capable of carrying up to 100 survivors, 28 of them under cover, have been allocated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to stations in...
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A Helicopter (1)
Tynemouth, and Cullercoats, Northum- berland. At 2.10 on the afternoon of the 5th August, 1961, the life-boat Tynesider stationed at Tynemouth was launched on a routine combined exer- cise with a helicopter from No. 228 Squadron, R.A.F....
The Crew
li RNLI coxswains sail through new RYA course Four coxswains have achieved RYA motor cruising qualifications. The course forms part of competencebased training for volunteer and full-time lifeboat crews. The successful crew are coxswain Rod...
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Increased Rewards for Life-Boat Services
IN accordance with the policy laid down by the Committee of Management some time ago, the scale of' Rewards given to the Coxswains and Crews of Life-boats for going afloat to save life has again been raised, the higher Rewards taking...
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Tranio
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—On the 7th March, 1938, the owner of the steam trawler Tranio, of Milford, which had run on the rocks in Killeany Bay on Aran Island some days earlier, arrived at Casla Bay on the mainland, with his chief...
The Busiest Winter for Twenty Years. Medals Won By English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-Boatmen
Medals Won by English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh Life-boatmen.
THE winter of 1935-6 will be remem- bered for the frequency and severity of its gales, for the heavy loss of life and shipping which they caused at sea, and...
Category: Medals
Three Boats
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 1.10 in the afternoon of the llth of May, 1952, a message was received from Leysdown that three women and a man in a small boat were in difficulties about two miles off shore, and at 1.30 the life-boat Greater...
Little and Broad Haven May 9: Handing Over and Dedication of New Ilb Donated By the City of Coventry Photograph By Courtesy of a Williams
Little and Broad Haven, May 9: Handing over and dedication of new ILB donated by the City of Coventry. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of A. Williams.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The American Ship Annie E Hooper
At daylight on the 20th Oc- tober, the American ship, Annie E. Hooper, was first seen to be ashore on the Horse ! Bank, from Southport, distant five miles.
The life-boat there was at once launched, j and after much...