LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature: We Ask the Questions
Making RNLI history work for the futureHeritage is very important to the RNLI. It's not just about having a collection of lifeboats and equipment from yesteryear, it is also about social history. Over the years the RNLI has amassed a...
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The Life-Boat
The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of the different types of Life-boats used in the Institution's service. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view. Fig. 2 the " plan " or deck view. Fig....
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Life-Saving Hammocks and Mattresses
IN our August Number we inserted a Paper by ADMIRAL RIDER on the great advantage that would accrue if the ham- mocks in ships of -war could be made to serve as life-buoys, in the event of a ship suddenly foundering; more especially as in...
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Norman Forster
Three men and disabled pilot boat saved in Severe Gale and 20ft seas The rescue of three men aboard the pilot vessel Norman Forster in severe gale force winds and very heavy seas has earned Coxswain John Johnston of the Eyemouth lifeboat the...
No Picnic
Amazingly, Poole lifeboats hadn’t been called out for a month, belying our status as one of the busiest coastal stations, but on Sunday 28 October at 10.59am, my pager broke its silence. Spurred into action, I knew that it could be something...
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Rapid
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At midnight on the 5th of August, 1952, the wife of a man, who had gone fishing in his motor boat Rapid with two others at 7.0 that morning, telephoned that they should have returned at 7.0 in the evening. There was a...
The S.S. Henriette Schulte
Torbay, Devon.—At 8.45 on the even- ing of the 10th of February, 1953, local shipping agents telephoned that a man had fallen down the hold of the S.S. Henriette Schulte, of Emden, seriously injuring himself, and asked if the life-boat would...
Moonstone
Exmouth, Devon.—At nine o'clock on the morning of the 18th of July, 1953, the life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton was launched to attend the life-boat flag day at Budleigh Salterton and Sidmouth. At 12.5, when she was at Sidmouth, two...
Sea Lavender
Aldeburgh, Suffolk - At 9.10 p.m.
on 13th June, 1966, the coxswain was told that a yacht lying off Aldeburgh was being kept under observation. At 9.30 the yacht fired a distress signal. The lifeboat The Alfred and Patience...
E286
HELICOPTER RESCUES TWO FROM DINGHY Minehead, and Weston-super-Mare, Somerset. At 11.30 on the morning of the 26th August, 1962, the police at Minehead reported that a dinghy, with a crew of two, was in difficulties off Dunster beach, and at...