LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boree (1)
Cromer and Wells, Norfolk.—On the 26th March the French steamer Boree, of Caen, and the Spanish steamer Aizkarai Mendi, were in collision off East Dudgeon light-vessel. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The weather...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are—
1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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Classified Advertisements
Entries under ACCOMMODATION are offered at the special rate of £7.00 for up to 50 words, including address and phone number. Additional words at 30p per word, minimum ten words. Other Classifications are at 30p per word minimum ten...
Category: Advertisement
Cedarbank
At 3.30 P.M. on the 24th January information was received that a four - masted barque — the Cedarbank, of Tvedestrand—was ashore on the Long Sand, and that two agents were anxious to get to the vessel as she was in want of assistance. As the...
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 198 NOTES OF THE QUARTER 199 CHRISTMAS MESSAGE 199 NORWEGIAN LIFE-BOAT ANNIVERSARY 2O2 GALWAY tIFE-BOAT MEETS ATLANTIC ROWERS 2O6 BROTHERS IN IRB SAVE THREE 208 LIGHTHOUSE MISSION 209 NEW WAYS OF RAISING MONEY 213...
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Walborg and H.M. Trawler Melbourne
FEBRUARY 15TH. - TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At 10.30 P.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a collision had occurred between two vessels, off the Spanish Battery Point, and that the Swedish steamer Walborg, of Stockholm, had...
Armistice Day, 11th November
The crew of the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat, with the vicar of Gorleston, about to embark for the service in memory of those who lost their lives at sea in the great war. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
RFD Company Ltd
Z-BOATS to the rescue.
Extensively used by the R.N.L.I, for inshore rescue work, the inflatable R.F.D. PB-16 Z-Boat is capable of carrying 10 people and supporting many in excess of that number. Being inherently buoyant, it...
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Ken Derham Names Mudeford's New Atlantic 21
Ken Derham names Mudeford's new Atlantic 21 with enthusiasm - and drenches the crew in the process. (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The R.N.L.I. Has Built Up Over 140 Years a Major Collection of Life-Boat Photographs and Illustrations. But Life-Boat Crews In Hazardous Conditions Seldom Get the Chance to Take Photographs. Som
The R.N.L.I. has built up over 140 years a major collection of life-boat photographs and illustrations. But life-boat crews in hazardous conditions seldom get the chance to take photographs. Sometimes the R.A.F. photographs lifeboats on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs