LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 15th May, 1938, an outboard motor boat capsized about two hundred yards off shore and four and a half miles west of Clacton. A slight S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the National Life-Boat Institution In 1882
Jan. 3.—Fire men put off in a boat at great risk arid rescued eight men whose boa|, had been driven away from Island Crone, Co. Don- egal, by a sudden gale of wind from the S.W., on the 2nd January, leaving them on the island —which is...
Category: Articles
Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Atlantic 75 B-713 OEM Stone I Aisisting Lifeboat Trent class ON-1211 Geoige and Ivy Swanson The Crew gfgnza Medal Helmsman David Parry for his 'outstanding courage.
seamanship and...
Category: Services
Olympic Skating Star John Curry Shows His Gold Medal to Branch Members Manning the Rnli Stand at Birmingham Boat Show: (I to R) Mrs G Cope Bill Cotton Roger Co
Olympic skating star John Curry shows his gold medal branch members manning the RNLI stand at Birmingham Boat Show: to r.) Mrs G. Cope, Bill Cotton, Roger Cope; looking over their shoulders Mrs C. E. Lea, honorary secretary of Birmingham... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ebor Abbey
Early on the morning of the 27th September the Belhelvie coastguards reported that a vessel ashore one mile north of the watch-house was making distress signals. A moderate S.S.W.
breeze was blowing, with a very heavy sea....
The S.S. Reina del Pacifico
EXPLOSION ON TRIAL RUN Donaghadee, Co. Down.—At 6.5 in the evening of the llth of September, 1947, a message came that the S.S. Reina del Pacifico, of Liverpool, running trials about twelve miles north of the Cope- land Islands, after being...
Shifting Sands
Shallow water and unpredictable sandbanks present the East Coast lifeboatman with particular difficulties.
Mike Floyd looks at the situation around The Wash We all have our own mental picture of a lifeboat in action - often...
Category: Articles
Asterionella
Capsize THE DAY OF TUESDAY AUGUST 26, 1986, dawned at Brighton with gale force winds blowing from the south south west, gusting to force 9 and skies overcast with a slight drizzle. Very heavy seas were running and waves up to 15 feet in...
News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September
1st July to 30th September.
Greater London.
BALHAM.—Special Life-boat Display at the Pavilion Theatre in connexion with the showing of the film " Atlantic " and collections organized by the...
Category: Branches
Treatment of the Apparently Drowned
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
Supported solely ty Voluntary Contributions.
DIRECTIONS FOR RESTORING THE APPARENTLY DROWNED.
THE leading principles of the following Directions...
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