LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Literature of the Life-Boat."
IN October of last year a supplement to The Life-boat was published, written by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution. The supplement, under the title of " Liter- ature of the Life-boat," gave an...
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A Small Boat
MAROONED ON THE ROCKS Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 1.43 in the afternoon of April the 22nd, 1947, the Ballycastle coastguard reported that a man, who had been missing in a small boat since the 20th had been reported on the Maidens Rocks,...
Fishing Boats
Escort EYEMOUTH DEPUTY LAUNCHING AUTHORITY was informed by HM Coastguard at 1608 on Tuesday February 14 that a number of fishing boats were about to attempt to enter harbour and, as sea conditions in Eyemouth Roadstead were very dangerous,...
A Fishing Vessel (1)
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
The Life-Belts Used By the Crews of the Life-Belts of the National Life-Belt Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a m«n heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support auother...
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Troubled Trawler
The relief Trent class lifeboat Corinne Whiteley, stationed in Whitby this Autumn while the town’s regular lifeboat was having a refit in Scotland, is pictured in near-gale conditions on 17 September.
In 5m breaking seas,...
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Deborah B Bermuda Search and Rescue Institute's First Lifeboat Is a 15' Grp Hamilton Jet-Propelled Open Launch from New Zealand on Service Around Bermuda She Will
Deborah B, Bermuda Search and Rescue Institute's first lifeboat is a 15' GRP Hamilton jet-propelled open launch from New Zealand. On service around Bermuda she will be operating in waters beset with coral reefs and shallows: she... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Visitors to the London Storm Force
Visitors to the London Storm Force Rally on 12 August take a close look at some of the models on display.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 15 November 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 4,390 times (an average of nearly 14 launches a day) 1,264 lives were saved (an average of four a day) Some...
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Service of Thanksgiving In Liverpool Cathedral
A SPECIAL service was held in Liverpool Cathedral on 26th November, 1933, at which some 200 people were present, in remembrance of those who, by their generosity and self-sacrifice, had brought into being the life-boat...
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