LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Demarius
GRIMSBY.—On the 7th January, notice having been received that the services of the Life-boat were required, the steam Life-boat James Stevens No. 3 left the harbour at 3.40 A.M., and proceeded to the schooner Demarius, of Goole, bound from...
The Safety Fishing-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, aircompartments, shifting-coamings, and hatches of one of the safety boats, 40 feet in length and 14 feet in breadth.
In figs. 1 and 2, the...
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Lerwick, Shetlands.—At 1.22 in the afternoon of the 30th of October, 1951, the Zetland medical officer for health asked if the life-boat would take a doctor to Fair Isle to treat a sick man, as the regular mail boat was under- going repairs....
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News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI At the Sharp End Lifeboat services around the country Open House A photo report of the RNLI's biennial Headquarters Open Days Pig Farms, Cottages and Parrots Deputy Director Ray...
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A Sailing Craft
Fleetwood, Lancashire.—At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 22nd of July, 1957, the coxswain was told that a fishing- vessel had wirelessed that a small sailing craft was ashore near the King's Scar buoy and that her crew were waving for help...
The Saint
TOTLAND BAY, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The schooner The Saint, of Padstow, while bound from Par, Cornwall, to Gravelines, with a cargo of china clay, stranded on the Warden Ledge in the early morning of the 2nd May. On receipt of information from the...
An Aeroplane
3rd July. An aeroplane of Cobham's Air Routes, Ltd., crashed off the Needles.
A steamer picked up the only passenger, but the pilot was killed. Sir Alan Cobham wrote expressing appreciation of the effort made by the...
Brownrigg
WINTERTON.—The No. 2 Life-boat, the Husband, was launched at 7.30 A.M. on the 13th August to the assistance of the four-masted ship Brownrigg, of Liverpool, bound from Hull for Cardiff in ballast, which, having been damaged by collision with...
Fishing Vessels
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the morning of the 30th of September, 1952, the coastguard reported that five fishing vessels were at sea in deteriorat- ing weather, and at 9.40 the No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann Hepworth was launched, with the...
The Parliamentary Inquiry. The Management Vindicated and Justified
IN view of the constant serious and un- founded charges against the administration of the Institution which have for the last few years been made in certain quarters and diligently circulated, mainly through the medium of the Press, such...
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