LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Electrical Communication With Light-Houses and Light-Vessels for Life-Saving Purposes
IT will doubtless be in the memory of many of our readers that the Report read at the last Annual Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION con- tained the important information that Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., the Chair- man of...
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Percy
On the 28th November, during a strong N.W. wind and a very heavy sea, a brig was seen riding in broken water near the Goodwin Light vessel, with a flag flying at her main gaff. The Bradford Life-boat was manned, and left the harbour at 8 A.M...
Mozambique Mission
You haven't got a cat's chance in hell of achieving anything in those boats' said one local, smiling knowingly as he looked at the HNLI's collection of D class lifeboats...To add further concern, a boatman with 20 years'...
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Soudan (1)
CAISTER, NORFOLK, and GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.— On the afternoon of the 7th November, during hazy weather, signal guns were heard from the St. Nicholas Lightship off the coast of Norfolk, in response to which the Gorleston Life-boat Mark Lane was...
6: and Hauls Boat on Aligning of Turntable With Carriage Is Critical Securing Chain Is Rove Through An After Ruffle Hole to Prevent Boat Overriding Carriage
6: And Hauls Boat On Aligning Of Turntable With Carriage Is Critical Securing Chain Is Rove Through An After Ruffle Hole To Prevent Boat Overriding Carriage. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Right: One Man Takes One Week to Inversion-Proof One Engine
Right: One man takes one week to inversion-proof one engine.. - View image in PDF
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Win a Car
Donald Steward of The Grange, New Buckenham, Norwich, NOR O4X, would like to remind everyone that the closing date of his National Car Competition is 30th September, 1967, and would be grateful to receive any sold books as soon as possible...
Category: Donations
Excel
On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.
That night nine Life-boats...
News and Views
N E W S P O I NT Charting our course for the future Vision and Values for the RNLI can almost hear your groans as I mention two business buzzwords currently in fashion. Notwithstanding this healthy cynicism - I need your...
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Douglas Isle of Man—Birthplace of the Rnli By Joan Davies
JUST AS at a time of family celebration, wherever its members may be, their thoughts will turn to home, so in the spring of 1974 the thoughts of the RNLI and its friends must inevitably turn to Douglas; the little seaport on the Isle of Man...
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