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Teasel

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

Ramsey, Douglas, and Peel, Isle of Man.

•—Just before half past five in the evening of the 6th of January, 1948, the coastguard informed the Ramsey life-boat station that the motor vessel Teasel was six miles east of the...

Barrus

Date: Winter 2000

Volume: 57

Issue: 551

Together we build a better engine.

Lifeboats Royal National Lifeboat Institution Has been relying on Mariner Outboard Engines from E. P. Barms Ltd for over 20 years.

These engines have been specially...

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An Irish Ship

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

Harbour accident THE LIFEBOAT CALL-OUT paging signal alerted Second Coxswain Christopher Tett of Weymouth on the afternoon of Easter Monday, March 31. 1986. He drove straight to the lifeboathouse, and as he made his way inside he noticed...

Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage

Date: April 1866

Volume: 06

Issue: 60

LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.

THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway and of side or bilgeways attached to the keelway, and...

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Amy

Date: November 1905

Volume: 19

Issue: 218

Shortly after midnight on the 4th-oth July, flares were observed by the Coastguard on duty at Westward Ho ! He at once communicated by telephone with Apple- dore, and the No. 1 Life-boat Jane Hannah Macdonald was sent to the place...

'Big Sister' Is World Leader

Date: Autumn 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 502

BY the end of the 1960s it was obvious that a larger lifeboat, which could operate at night was needed. After testing various rigid hull boats, the RNLI chose one pioneered by Rear Admiral Desmond Hoare at Atlantic College, South Wales. The...

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Belfort, of Rochelle

Date: August 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 97

On the 12th April, shortly after midnight, signal-guns were reported to have been heard in the direction of the north end of the Goodwin Sands. The Ramsgate Life-boat, the Bradford, in. tow of the Vulcan steam-tug, at once pro- ceeded to sea...

Georgina

Date: August 1881

Volume: 11

Issue: 121

PORTHOUSTOCK, CORNWALL. At 11 P.M., on the 22nd February, the brigantine Georgina, of Portmadoc, bound from London, to Cork, with a cargo of railway sleepers, struck on the Levellers Rocks to the north-eastward of this place. The night was...

Royal Commission on Unseaworthy Ships. Final Report

Date: February 1875

Volume: 09

Issue: 95

IN our last number we commented on the j first portion of this important Report, comprising the clauses on "Overloading and Load Line," "Deck Loads," "Grain j Cargoes," and "Survey of British Merchant Ships...

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Tunnel vision

Date: Autumn 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 597 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2011

St Abbs crew trusted each other with their lives in an outstandingly gallant rescue

‘This was something you can’t train for and something we’d never seen before. The decisions we made had to be...

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