LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Replete
Sennen Cove, Cornwall.—The Brixham fishing boat Replete, with a crew of four, was trawling off the Wolf lighthouse on the night of the 14th July. She caught fire, and the crew, after trying to get the flames under control, had to abandon her...
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Life-Boat Essay Competition
IT is very pleasant to be able to record that this Competition is growing both in popularity and in the extent to which schools in every part of Great Britain are taking part in it. Unfortunately, owing to the political situation, the...
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Turkestan
PORTMADOC.—During the forenoon of the 18th February the ship Turkestan, of Liverpool, bound to that port from New York, got ashore near the bar at the entrance to this harbour. It was blowing fresh at S.S.W., with too heavy a sea to admit of...
Francis's Corrugated Iron Boats
As iron ship-building has been most suc- cessfully practised in this country for several years past, and as we possess superior ad- vantages over all other countries for the manufacture of that metal, it is surely matter for surprise that we...
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Fram
Ramsgate, Kent. At 6.35 on the morning of the 7th September, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a Dutch motor vessel was leaking badly half a mile east of the North Goodwin lightvessel. At 7.5 the life-boat Michael and...
Rnli News
Freedom of Swansea The officers, committee and crew of The Mumbles lifeboat station were honoured with the Freedom of the City of Swansea on April 23, 1987, when the Lord Mayor of Swansea, Councillor Mrs Lilian Hopkin, presented the freedom...
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Skim
Southend-on-Sea, Essex - At 3.3 p.m. on 24th July, 1966, a small sloop appeared to be in difficulties off Warden point. There was a gale from the southwest with a rough sea. The tide was flooding. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
Competitive Trials With Pulling Life-Boats
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION carried out at Lowestoft in 1892 a series of competitive trials and tests with, sailing Life-boats the details of which were subsequently published. The trials with the various types of pulling Life-boats...
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The Humber, Yorkshire.—15th January.
Distress rockets had been reported from a vessel north of Mablethorpe which had then turned seawards, and nothing could be found.
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