LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Steamer (40)
NOVEMBER 6TH. - WICK, CAITHNESSSHIRE.
A steamer had struck a mine, but she had sunk by the time the life-boat arrived.
The life-boat was then asked by a destroyer to search for a boat containing seven of...
Our Inland Branches. Settle
DOES our reader know where Settle is, or the description of country that has to be traversed in making the journey to this part of England ? The question will pro- bably be answered in the negative, as it is a small market town of some 2000...
Category: Articles
This Way Up
The ability of a modern lifeboat to self-right after a capsize is a valuable safety feature, but just how is this achieved? Mike Floyd sets out to explain the principles behind a modern self-righting lifeboat without recourse to diagrams or...
Category: Articles
2. Dover's lifeboat Rotary Service and the Atlantic 21 on trials at Walmer found themselves busy soon after departure.
2. Dover's lifeboat Rotary Service and the Atlantic 21 on trials at Walmer found themselves busy soon after departure. The Atlantic was on service for some 15 hours and eventually spent the night in Dunkirk.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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Injured boy RAMSEY COASTGUARD telephoned Peel lifeboat station at 1943 on Tuesday April 20, 1982, asking for immediate help for a boy who had fallen over the cliffs at Eairy Cushlin. Maroons were fired and the crew assembled. The Neil...
Patricia
YACHT'S CREW SAVED At 12.13 P-m. on the same day the east pier watchman informed the honorary secretary that a small yacht was in difficulties off Ramsgate. At 12.25 tne life-boat Elizabeth Elson, on temporary duty at the station, put...
They Provide Any Treatment
They provide any treatment they are able to.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Kattie Darling and Prothesa
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—One of the worst storms ever experienced on this coast prevailed on the morning of the 1st November, the wind blowing almost a hurricane from the S.S.E., and the sea running mountains high. At 9.30 a signal of distress...
Smith's Patent Ship-Lifting and Submarine Surveying Apparatus
CONSIDERING what a vast amount of wealth has been every year engulfed beneath the waves since mankind engaged in commerce by sea, it is matter for astonishment that so little has been attempted in an organized and scientific manner for the...
Category: Articles
Pet
SWANSEA.—The coxswain of the Lifeboat received a telegram from the harbour master at Port Talbot shortly before 5 P.M. on the 1st December, stating that a vessel was ashore on Port Talbot bar.
The wind was blowing from the...