LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of e, life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (Tmmimmn 28 Ibi., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support...
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Boy Billy, Our Boys and June Rose
Sheringham, Norfolk. At 7.15 on the morning of the 17th of April, 1959, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that three local fishing boats were at sea in deteriorating weather.
The life-boat Foresters Centenary was...
The Lifeboat Station at Skerries Co Dub/In Was Formally Re-Opened on Sunday May 1
The lifeboat station at Skerries, Co Dub/in, was formally re-opened on Sunday May 1 bv John Boland, Minister for the Public Service in the Republic of Ireland; Mr Boland lives in Skerries and has been closely involved in the reestablishment... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The S.S. Invella
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—Early in the evening of the 25th February Lloyd's agent telephoned that a wireless message had been received from s.s. Invella, of Glasgow, reporting that one of her crew was...
Millicent
On the after- noon of the 19th November the coast- guard telephoned that the local fishing boat Millicent, with three men on board, had been out for twelve hours, and some anxiety was felt for her safety. A moderate north wind was blowing,...
Star and Hope
The Staithes Pull- ing and Sailing Life-boat John Anthony was launched at 10.45 A.M. on the 5th October, as two of a number of fishing cobles which had put to sea to haul their crab pots had not returned and the sea had become rough, with a...
The New 47-Feet Life-Boat
A NEW 47-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of her kind, completed her trials during the summer of 1955. She has now been sent to her station at Thurso, Caithness-shire.
The new life-boat is a development of the 46-feet...
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Ex-Coxswain Richard Roberts, of Deal
Ex-Coxswain Richard Roberts of Deal. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat belonging to the Norwegian Steam Trawler Shetland
Longhope, Orkney.—29th June. A small boat, belonging to the Norwegian steam trawler Shetland, of Haugsund, which had foundered, was in distress, but a trawler rescued her crew.—• Rewards, £4 19s. 6d..