LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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V X)fltCfl.tS Notes of the Quarter 38 T.7 1 VT TV Lifeboat Services 41 Volume XLIX Number 488 Visiting Lifeboats, from West Germany and the Netherlands 47 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards 48 Chairman: THE DUKE OF ATHOLL...
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The Christmas Gales. Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-Boat's Four Launches In One Day
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy gales on Christmas night and the following day. During the seven days of the Christmas week, from 21st December to 27th December,...
Category: Services
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
INDEX TO THE GIFT LIFE-BOATS OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to ttie numbers of the Lifeboats detailed on the ten preceding Pages.) A. B. S., 123. Dodd, H..Esq . the late, 274. H...
Category: Donations
The Motor Fleet
" STEADILY onwards," may be said to be the policy of the Institution, in regard to the installation of motive power in its Fleet of Life- boats.
A year ago we gave a description of the various boats which were...
Category: Articles
The Dutch Oil Tanker Georgia
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 1st March. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
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Around the Coast
WHEN THE NUCLEAR submarine HMS Spartan sailed from Barrow-in-Furness last February she had to navigate an exact course out into Morecambe Bay.
A Decca trisponder chain of four 'slave' stations was set up from which...
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Selsey, Sussex. At 4.8 on the after- noon of 26th March, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that four people were stranded on a derelict Mulberry harbour about three- quarters of a mile off Pagham. At 4.14, when the...
Malabar 13
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 6.25 on the evening of the llth of August, 1951, a member of the local life-boat committee telephoned that a yacht taking part in the Fastnet Race had been dismasted west of the North East Shingles Buoy. She was...