LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Travelling Festival
BESIDES the exhibition on the South Bank of the Thames there were two travelling exhibitions. One by sea and the other by land. The exhibition by sea was mounted in the aircraft carrier H.M.S. Campania, which sailed from Southampton early in...
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Boy Claude
The Life-boat Kentwell was launched during a moderate S.W. breeze and moderate sea on the 14th December, and saved the crew of four hands of the trawler Buy Claude, of Lowestoft, which had stranded on the north extension pier whilst outward...
A Dinghy
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 1.50 early on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that cries for help had been heard off Camper Road to the east of the gasworks. The weather was calm and the...
Disaster at Broughty Ferry
IN the early hours of the 8th of December, 1959, the Broughty Ferry life-boat Mona was launched on receipt of a message that the North Carr lightvessel had broken adrift. Some time between 5.15 and 6.00 in the morning the life- boat capsized...
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The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
(S«e Diagrams «« next page.) The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat. Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
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At Her Righting Trial the Fast Slipway Boat Prototype City of London 'Capsized' By Crane Righted In Just Five Seconds Photographs By Courtesy of Brian Manhy
At her righting trial the fast slipway boat prototype City of London. - View image in PDF
'capsized' by crane, righted in just five seconds. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Brian Manhy 19. - View image in PDF
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Michel Martell, Senior Partner of His Family Firm In Cognac, In the Wheelhouse of the Southend Life-Boat on the Occasion of the First Issue of Brandy to a Life-Boat Station. As Stated Elsewhere, the H
Michel Martell, senior partner of his family firm in Cognac, in the wheelhouse of the Southend life-boat on the occasion of the first issue of brandy to a life-boat station. As stated elsewhere, the House of Martell has donated cognac to... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Durward
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 7.58 on the morning of the 17th of January, 1954, the coastguard reported that the S.S.
Durward, of Grangemouth, which had a crew of eleven, was leaking and had a list on the south side of Robin...