LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Long search rewarded FOLLOWING A REPORT that some people had been cut off by the tide in the Beacon Cove area, Newquay's 17ft 6in C class inflatable lifeboat had launched on the afternoon of Sunday August 3, 1986. It was a fine day with...
Coxswain Thomas Langlands, of Whitby
The Life-boat Service has lost one of its most distinguished Coxswains by the death on 20th March last, after a painful illness, of Thomas Smith Langlands, of Whitby. He had a great career as a Life-boatman, a career extending over nearly...
Category: Obituaries
A Trimaran
Capsized trimaran FOUR MINUTES after HM Coastguard had alerted Berwick-upon-Tweed crew and honorary secretary, at 1631 on May 31, 1975, to tell them that a trimaran had capsized 2\ cables outside the harbour entrance, the D class ILB was...
Royal opening for Cowes station
HM The Queen opened the new Cowes Lifeboat Station on 25 July.
The new station is 4 minutes closer to the Solent than the previous building. These 4 minutes could be the difference between life and death in an area like...
Category: Articles
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Iv—Skeleton Hull
DURING THE PAST THREE MONTHS, the work of building up the skeleton hull of the lifeboat (Fig, 1), swiftly sketched out in Part III of this article, has been progressing at William Osbornes with meticulous care. Each of the very many pieces...
Category: Articles
George and Mary, and Udea
FISHGUARD, SOUTH WALKS.—A small screw steamer and a schooner had been at anchor in Fishguard roadstead for some days, being unable to go round St. David's Head, owing to the strong westerly winds.
On the night of the...
Conference on Safety at Sea
THE fourth International Conference on the Safety of Life at Sea was held at Church House, Westminster, from the 17th of May to the 17th of June, 1960. The three earlier conferences had been held in 1913, 1929 and...
Category: Meetings
The Prince of Wales In a Motor Life-Boat
IN his speech at the Annual General Meeting the Prince of Wales said that he hoped one day to have an oppor- tunity of going out in a Life-boat. This opportunity came when, a month later, he made his tour through his Duchy of Cornwall, and...
Category: Articles
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Category: Advertisement
Books
The Cromer Lifeboats by Bob Malster and Peter Stibbons (Poppyland Publishing), available from Cromer RNLI honorary secretary, 33 Hillside, Cromer, Norfolk, for £1.20 plus 25p post and packing, is the third edition of booklets about the...
Category: Articles