LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Buzzard
Barra Island, Hebrides. At 11.30 on the night of the 18th of April, 1958, the agent for the steam trawler Buzzard, of Fleetwood, asked the honorary sec- retary if the life-boat would land a man from the trawler, who was seriously...
Life-Boats As Ambulances
AT 8.15 on the morning of 8th November last, the Motor Life-boat on the Humber was launched in a strong breeze, with a rough sea in answer to signals of distress, and after travelling for two hours at full speed found a steamtrawler, the...
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Helping Pilots In Trouble
THE SOUTH EAST coast of England, as was the case during the war, still hears (and sometimes sees) military aircraft belonging to the R.A.F. and the U.S.A.F.
During this summer alone life-boats of the Institution have...
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The Constance
On the 23rd December a small open boat, the Con- stance, of Eyemouth, was returning home in a very heavy sea, and as it was realized that the men on board wouJd be in serious danger if any attempt was made to go into harbour, the Life-boa...
A Trawler
MARCH 18TH. - GOURDON, KINCARDINESHIRE.
Shortly after seven in the morning the body of a man was found among the rocks near Gourdon. There was a fog, and when it lifted a trawler could be seen.
The...
The Danish Steamer Marianne Toft, of Copenhagen
SEPTEMBER 12TH. - PORT ERIN, AND PEEL, ISLE OF MAN. The Danish steamer Marianne Toft of Copenhagen, had sunk after collision with another vessel. Twelve of her crew landed in a ship’s boat, but ten others in another boat could not be found.-...
Caribou
SEPTEMBER 14TH. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. During the afternoon the local motor fishing boat Caribou was reported to be overdue, and at 4.30 P.M. the motor life-boat Lady Harrison was launched. A fresh squally S.W. wind was blowing, with a...
R.N.L.I.'s Management Review
As part of its constant efforts to mee* increasing demands on its services in the most efficient way possible, the R.N.L.I, has engaged P.A. Management Consultants Ltd. to help draw up a programme to improve the Institution's cost...
Category: Committee
Contents
In this issue News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 10 The work of the Institution around the coast On the Road 16 Taking instruction to the lifeboat stations with the Mobile Training Units A Day in the...
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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 roan heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides himself.
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