LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
HERE ARE two mooring fittings for afloat lifeboats, developed in the RNLI design office from long experience. (Left) Stemhead fitting: designed for use on cold, dark nights, with good finger-holds and nothing 'fiddly' about it. Cast...
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Life-Boat Services
IT is satisfactory to find that during the terrific gales of the few months that have passed of the present year, the life-boats in connection with the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION have been instrumental in rescuing one hundred and...
Category: Services
Fishing Boats
Oh the morning of the 17th November; while a large number of fishing-boats were out, the wind rose, on the turn of the tide, to a strong gale from S.E. The sea was also very rough. The cobles that were nearest the shore managed to get in...
A Speed Boat
Speedboat AT 1734 on Bank Holiday Monday, August 1986, the crews of Sheerness' 44ft Waveney and 16ft D class inflatable lifeboats were alerted by the duty officer at the Medway Port Office, following reports from Thames Coastguards of a...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ABERSOCH, NORTH WALES.—The NA- TIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a life-boat station at Abersoch, near Pwll- heli. A large number of vessels are often at anchor in St. Tudwell's Roads off that place, which are liable to accident or...
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On Passage to St. Abbs
The new St. Abbs 37-foot Oakley life-boat, Jane Hay, sailed from Osborne's yard, Littlehampton, at 8 a.m. on 3ist October, 1964. Captain the Hon. V. M.
Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the Committee of Management, was...
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Double jeopardy
Two mayday calls in quick succession put Walton and Frinton lifeboat crew on high alert
motoryacht’s two crew issued a mayday just before 1pm on Monday 21 June, after suffering engine failure. The boat was drifting towards...
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Thompson, of Whitby
On the 4th January, at 9 A.M., the brig Thompsons, of Whitby, in endeavouring to get into the harbour at Scarborough, missed the entrance and was driven on shore, the wind blowing a heavy gale from the eastward at the time. The Scarborough...
H.M. Trawler British
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT YARMOUTH Nov. 14TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 8.40 in the evening a message was received at the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, station that a vessel was ashore off the Brighstone look-out.
A fresh...
Great Rail Journeys
Winter Glacier Express BY TRAIN FROM LONDON Travel with the UK's leading rail holiday specialists on this sensational 10-day two-centre holiday to Switzerland. A friendly and professional Tour Manager accompanies all departures so sit...
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