LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Vhp Transmitter/Receivers Are Now Very Compact and Can Be Fitted In Boats As Small As the RNLI's D Class Inflatables. This Photograph of the First Atlantic 75 Rigid
VHP transmitter/receivers are now very compact and can be fitted in boats as small as the RNLI's D class inflatables. This photograph of the first Atlantic 75 rigid inflatable clearly shows the aerial mounted on the mast aft - as high as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Fishing Boats (1)
Arbroath, Angus.—About 11.45 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that fishing boats were still at sea in deteriorating weather and that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The life-boat Robert...
Telegraphic Communication With Lightships
IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...
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James Bryce Allan
Mr. James Bryce Allan, who had been a member of the Committee of Management since 1930, died on the 12th of May, 1960. He had served on the Construction and General Purposes Committees of the Institution.
Mr. Allan was a...
Category: Obituaries
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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A Trawler (7)
AUG. 28TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
A trawler had gone on the rocks, but she refloated unaided. - Rewards, £4 11s.
Flamborough: a Service of Re-Dedication Witnessed By Some 5000 People Was Held at North Landing Flamborough on Sunday
Flamborough: A service of re-dedication witnessed by some 5,000 people was held at North Landing, Flamborough, on Sunday August 7 for the 37ft Oakley class lifeboat Will and Fanny Kirby. The lifeboat, originally in service at Seaham until... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An American Fortress Aeroplane (4)
JUNE 12TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 9.15 in the morning the coastguard reported that an American Fortress aeroplane had crashed in the sea to the south-east. The life-boatmen had already seen a parachute coming down. A light westerly wind was...
Loss of the "Arctic." Heroic Conduct of An Englishman
HEROIC CONDUCT OF AN ENGLISHMAN.
IT is with the mingled feeling of melancholy pleasure that is peculiar to the contemplation of great acts which have caused the death of the actors of them, that we add to our series of...
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