LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Cheboque, of The Royal Canadian Navy
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The frigate Cheboque, of the Royal Canadian Navy, had been torpedoed in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles away, with the loss of one of her crew of forty-three, and severe damage to her stern...
£45,000 from An Aeroplane
The Newquay life-boat went out in a fog to a crashed, aeroplane. She found no one alive,'but. she brought ashore twelve bodies, mail bags and £45,000 in 100-dollar bills..
Category: Articles
Medical Arrangements In the Rnli (From Page 83)
(from page 83) provided for inshore lifeboats or for conventional lifeboats, with the exception of 70' boats, but that the subject should be kept under review. This duty is now undertaken by the Medical and Survival Committee which...
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Rescued? By a G L Hardy
IT WAS THE YEAR I joined the lifeboat crew, and the second world war was nearly upon us. It was a bright early summer morning with a brisk breeze and I was sailing my dinghy through wavelets sparkling with the sun's jewels on their...
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(Above) Fig 4: Propeller Tunnel Cants and Timbers In Place
(Above) Fig. 4: Propeller tunnel cants and timbers in place.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
After Cockpit Well: Fig 4 (Right) Side Decks
After cockpit well: Fig. 3 (left) Beams and, Fig. 4 (right) side decks are fitted. Straight run back of after end of cartings, inboard of side decks, will take sliding wheelhouse doors. All spaces under beams will be filled with shaped,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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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M. Andre Citroen
The Institution has also lost a very generous friend by the death of M.
Andre1 Citroen, founder and head of the great French motor-manufacturing firm which bears his name. M. Citroen will be remembered not only for his work...
Category: Obituaries
The Patrol Boat Havoernen of the Royal Danish Navy
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, and Caister, Norfolk.—On the morning of the 3rd of December, 1952, the fast patrol boat Havoernen, of the Royal Danish Navy, with a crew of twenty-four, which was taking part in exercises with British coastal...
Record Breakers! Smiles All Round from Members of the Lowestoft Model Boat Club
Record breakers! Smiles all round from members of the Lowestoft Model Boat Club who returned in triumph after setting new endurance records with their radio-controlled craft during a world distance attempt at Stevenage, which was organised... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs