LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Roll Out the Barrel!
Roll out the barrel! Pub teams rolled a barrel filled with 22 gallons of water along three miles of road. The barrel-push, by six teams of six runners, was to raise money for the new Loweslofl lifeboat appeal and the Licensed Victuallers'... - View image in PDF
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The Help of Shipowners
THE following is the list of effective donations received from the owners.
services canied out during the first The list does not include any -services four months of 1927, with the names of where salvage has been paid to...
Category: Donations
Stromness: First Lifeboat Station In Orkney By Joan Davies
TAKE THE FERRY from Scrabster Harbour to Stromness. Cross the Pentland Firth from the north coast of Caithness to Mainland, Orkney, and already there is a growing feeling of vast distance, of wide horizons. A majestic, ponderous swell rolls...
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The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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The S.S. Commandant Charles Meric
On the 1st March the s.s.
Commandant Charles Meric, of Bay- onne, ran aground on the Cross Sand while bound from the Tyne to Bordeaux with a cargo of coal. She carried a crew of thirty. There was very little wind, but the...
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
ISLE OF MAN.
XX. and XXI.—DOUGLAS.
No. 1. The Manchester and Salford Sunday Schools, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars.
No. 2. The John Turner- Turner, 35 feet long, 9 feet...
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The Memorial at St. Anne's to the Victims of the Two Capsizing Accidents on 9Th December
The memorial at St Anne's to the victims of the two capsizing accidents on 9th December, 1886, when 27 lifeboatmen perished in the estuary.. - View image in PDF
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Familiarisation With the Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatable Lifeboat By Chris Rundle
AN ABILITY TO KEEP ONE'S HEAD, regardless, seems to be one of the basic qualifications lifeboatmen need.
Especially when they find their world suddenly turned upside down.
Capsizing is not an everyday...
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The Codling Bank Lightvessel
Wicklow.—At 2.15 on the afternoon of the 1st of August, 1953, the Com- missioners of Irish Lights asked if the life-boat would take a doctor to the Codling Bank Lightvessel. The life- boat Lady Kylsant was launched at 2.31 with a doctor on...
Notes of the Quarter
ON 21st January, 1970, Fraserburgh life-boat capsized with the loss of five members of her crew. There was only one survivor, Mr. Jackson Buchan. On 25th March Mr. Goronwy Roberts, Minister of State, Board of Trade, stated in the House of...
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