LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Exhaust Watertighting
For about 20 early lifeboats which have been fitted with air bags to give them a self-righting capability, there has been the possibility, in the event of a capsize, that water could enter the mast and find its way through the exhaust system...
Category: Articles
(Below Right) Coxswain Harry Jones Welcomes the Chairman Major-General Ralph Farrant to Hoylake Lifeboat Station on April 25 Committee and Crew Were Present In Str
(Below right) Coxswain Harry Jones welcomes the Chairman, Major-General Ralph Farrant, to Hoylake lifeboat station on April 25.
Committee and crew were present in strength to meet him and show him their 37' 6"... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Flamborough Life-Boat Friendly Forester Going Out on Exercise In a South East Gale and Snow-Storm on 12Th March 1969
The Flamborough life-boat Friendly Forester going out on exercise in a south east gale and snow-storm on 12th March, 1969.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
She Is Fully Inverted When Parbuckle Is Released
. she is fully inverted, when parbuckle is released .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Pilot Gig
BRIXHAM, DEVON.—At 10.45 A.M. on the 18th January, on the urgent solicitation of a number of experienced master mariners, sailors and seamen, the City of Exeter Life-boat was launched to render assistance to a pilot gig proceeding to put...
Llunelli Asc Organised a Sponsored Sea Swim In August and Raised £145 £80 of Which Was Raised By Susan Roach Who Presented the Cheque to Mrs Dorothy William
Llunelli ASC organised a sponsored sea swim in August and raised £145, £80 of which was raised by Susan Roach who presented the cheque to Mrs Dorothy Williams, chairman of Burry Port ladies' guild. Burry Port ILB was herself... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Adelaide
When the brigantine Adelaide, of Fowey, with a cargo of coal for Par, was anchored in ParBayonthe nightof the 12thFebruary a S.S.W. gale sprang up. The vessel dragged her anchors, losing one and finally bringing up in shallow water, close...
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Category: Advertisement
Rescue from a Trawler About to Sink
AT 5.30 on the morning of the 15th of January, 1953, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Thurso life- boat station that the steam trawler Sunlight was reported ashore on Holborn Head and in need of immed- iate...
Category: Services
Orion and Motor Yacht Binge
FOUR RESCUED BY BREECHES BUOY Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 1.50 inthe afternoon of the 2nd of November, 1947, the Needles Naval Signal Station reported a motor launch, with the yacht Orion in tow, in need of help, and the motor life-boat...