LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Richard Oakley, MBE, MRINA
A new tvpe of lifeboat, known as the Oakley tvpe, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.
She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...
Category: Obituaries
University Marine Ltd
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Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable, powerful. And they always are. Every Evinrude is...
Category: Advertisement
The S.S. Varna
CAISTER, NORFOLK. — On the 21st February some of the crew and beachmen on board the s.s. Varna, of London, which had been lying on Caister beach since stranding there on the 23rd January, hoisted a flag. A moderate gale had suddenly sprung...
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SICK CHILD At 4.30 p.m. on 25th January, 1966, the local Medical Officer of Health informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick child with suspected appendicitis who needed immediate hospital treatment, and because of the rough sea...
Anchors
THE subject of Anchors is one of such vast importance to the Life-boat Service, and of so deep an interest to the whole sea-faring community, that it is felt that the able Paper, entitled "Anchors: Old Forms and Recent...
Category: Articles
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Search for swimmer FOR WHITBY'S 1983 lifeboat day, Saturday August 6, the weather was fine and clear with little wind and calm water.
Just before 1500 the lifeboat crew were assembling aboard the 44ft Waveney relief...
Canoes
Walmer, Kent. At 3.18 on the after- noon of the 20th May, 1961, the coast- guard informed the honorary secretary that he had seen from the cliff-top at St. Margaret's two canoeists capsize about a mile off shore in choppy...
The S.S. Lynn Trader
ATTEMPT TO REFLOAT A STEAMER Flamborough, Yorkshire.—On the night of the 3rd of January, 1948,- the S.S. Lynn Trader went ashore about one mile south of Flamborough Head while on passage, in ballast, from King's Lynn to Blyth. She...
Three Men Jump from a Fishing Vessel
AT 5.2.3 on the afternoon of the 26th of July, 1954, a man at Aberdovey telephoned the Aberystwyth, Cardi- ganshire, life-boat station to say that a fishing vessel was in difficulties between Towyn and Aberdovey. Immediately afterwards the...
Category: Services
Salmi
On the 5th December, the weather being thick, and a strong wind from W.S.W. blowing, a barque was observed in the bay, apparently making for the land. As soon as her dangerous po- sition was seen, the Agar Bobartes life-boat put off, through...