LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Left: Launching the experimental boat at DML with a Trent class lifeboat shown behind).. - View image in PDF

" Man the Life-boat!" Listen, brother, How the signal cleaves the air, Chilling heart of wife or mother With a feeling nigh despair; "Man the Life-boat 1" and the thunder Seems to echo back the cry; "Dare they...

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. Sheer Plan.

Fig. 2.

Body Plan. Midship Section.

The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of...

MARGATE.—Signals were shown by a vessel in Margate Roads, while a whole gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a very heavy sea and thick weather, with rain, on the 3rd August. The Lifeboat Civil Service, No. 1, was launched at 11.40 P.M...

MANY of our readers will have learned by the newspapers that for some time past discontent has existed amongst our merchant seamen, chiefly on the ground of their being liable to imprisonment for re- fusing, after signing articles, to...

Skegness, Lincolnshire - At 1.17 p.m. on I4th August, 1966, a small motor boat was reported to have broken down a quarter of a mile east of Chapel point. At 1.30 the IRB was launched in a heavy swell and a fresh westerly wind. It was one...

Baltimore, Co. Cork - At 7.30 p.m.

on 29th May, 1966, the Hare Island Post Office informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had grounded on a rock between Hare Isle and Cunamur Point (Taylor's Rock). The life-boat...

One of the key people at every lifeboat station is the honorary medical adviser, a local general practitioner who takes into his care the routine medical oversight of boat and crew and who, while not necessarily required by his appointment...