LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coast review
Despite being nearly 188 years old, the lifeboat service never stands still
How do you decide where to locate a lifeboat station and what kind of craft should be housed there? That’s the job of...
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The Heavy Gales of May and June Last
Also II. to some men for rescuing 2 men from a boat which was capsized by a heavy sea, on the 8th May last, off Gweedore Bar, on the coast of Donegal.
Also Silver Medal of the Institution and U to Gunner CHARLES LEESE, and...
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Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels In 1937 and Numbers of the Fleets
DURING 1937 help was given by foreign life-boat services to 21 British vessels.
Four of these services were by France, 2 by Iceland, 1 by Holland, 1 by Belgium, 1 by Norway and 15 by the United...
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Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 50-61.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 163.
Abersoch, Carnarvon, 167. Orogbeda, Ireland, 256.
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOLY ISLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.—The Life-boat stationed in 1868 at Boss Links, Holy Island, has recently been replaced by a new one, 31 feet long, 7£ feet wide and towing 10 oars, double banked. It possesses all the latest improvements, as...
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Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1933
THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools was held this year for the thirteenth time. The number of schools which took part was 2,207, as compared with 2,249 in 1932. But though there was a decline...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Appledore, and Clovelly, Devon.—-Dur- ing the afternoon of the 7th August, 1937, signals were seen coming from a small motor yacht oft Westward Ho, A moderate N.N. W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth to...
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The Wreck Register and Chart
WE are glad to be in a position to present to our readers our customary annual review of the casualties in shipping, the loss of life incurred, and the lives saved by the Institution in the year ending June 30th, 1913, in connexion with the...
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The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt t'l are — ; ft- .-,:r X. 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., 1...
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An Admiralty Drifter and Rosa (2)
DEC. 13TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND, AND SUNDERLAND, DURHAM. An Admiralty drifter had been blown up by enemy action, but Blyth life-boat could find no survivors.
She was then directed to a position where...