LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gundine
LIFE-BOATS SMOTHERED IN OIL Stromnest, and Longbope, Orkneys.— At 7.34 in the morning of the 24th of August, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned to the Stromness life-boat station that the Norwegian tanker Gundine, of Arendal, was...
RNLI Volunteers Keep Evacuees Safe In Flood Waters
RnLI volunteers keep evacuees safe in fl ood waters. - View image in PDF
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Latch & Batchelor Ltd
STAINLESS STEEL J ROPE FOR RIGGING ffj[ NOMINAL "• [ DIAMETER STANDING RIGGING RUNNING RIGGING f) Milli- Inches / metres (approx) MINIMUM BREAKING LOAD (LBS) 5/64' 705 1100 1590 2820 4410 6350 8646 10200 10500 .534 1200 2130 3330...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BALCARY, KIRKCUDBRIGHT. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat establishment at Balcary Point, in Auchencairn Bay, on the coast of Kirkcudbright, which is considered to be an excellent position whence a Life- boat can...
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Varley Batteries
The battery that's fitted to the Atlantic The Atlantic 21 was designed for the RNLI to withstand the arduous conditions involved in high speed search and rescue operations.
This special boat needs a very special battery...
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White Heather II and Welcome Home (1)
ON the morning of 17th February last a number of fishing boats from Sheringham, on the coast of Norfolk, went out after whelks. Before they returned a heavy sea had got up, and the boats were in danger. A message was sent for the Motor...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PETERHEAD, SCOTLAND.—The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat was launched at noon on the 5th of January, 1886, some of the boats engaged in the haddock fishery having been overtaken by a strong gale of wind from the N.E. and. a heavy sea....
Category: Services
Life-Preservers
[NT the Times newspaper of the 20th of February last, we read the following narration of a deplorable occurrence by which industrious men were deprived of life, and their families, all in indigent circumstances, left in sorrow to struggle...
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Bullocks over cliff PORT ISAAC HONORARY SECRETARY received a request from HM Coastguard at 1606 on October 5, 1975, for the ILB to be launched to stand by teams attempting to rescue bullocks which had fallendown a cliff into a small cove at...
Fred Olsen Travel
Supporters of RNLI - Group Tours 1983 14-DAY EASTER CRUISE On Fred. Olsen's "Black Watch". Prices from £530 per person, departing on 31 March, visiting Madeira, Lanzarote, Tenerife and Las Palmas.
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