LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Welded Aluminium Construction Is Lighter Than Steel
Welded aluminium construction is lighter than steel and is well suited to the construction of carriage launched lifeboats, where steel is too heavy and abrasion problems make GRP unsuitable. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Old Life-Boats
THE adventures of life-boats after they pass out of the service have, from time to time, been recorded in this journal.1 Some go far afield. One became a launch on a South African river. An- other, a steam life-boat, was sent some years ago...
Category: Articles
A Rowing Boat
W Moelfre, Anglesey. — On the 2nd August a party of six put out in a rowing boat from Benllech. They lost their oars. The owner of the boat, seeing this, went after them in another boat.
He reached them, and got aboard with...
(Below) Later Walked Over to the Dais to Name the New Boat Ann Ritchie
(Below) . . . later walked over to the dais to name the new boat Ann Ritchie.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Small Boat (5)
BIyth, Northumberland. — 7th September.
A small boat sank in Hartley Bay, but her crew were rescued by men from St. Mary's Island lighthouse.— Rewards, £8 8s..
An Aeroplane’s Dinghy (1)
OCTOBER 25TH. - ST. DAVID’S, PEMBROKESHIRE.
An aeroplane’s dinghy was reported to have been seen, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £12 8s..
An Aeroplane (46)
NOVEMBER 24TH. - ST. MARY’S, SCILLY ISLES. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but nothing could be found.
- Rewards, £14 5s..
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Rescue By Fifteen-Year-Old Boy
AT 10.30 on the morning of the 27th of July, 1957, the coastguard told the honorary secretary of the Hoylake life-boat station, Captain H. H. Davies, that a man was in danger on a bank opposite the Heswall Yacht Club, and asked if the...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Sinloo & S.S. Douglas
The s.s. Sinloo, of Newcastle, and s.s. Douglas, of Sun- derland, collided when near the Cross Sand Light-vessel in moderately fine weather, on-the 28th January. Guns were heard at Gorleston at 6.50 P.M., and the steam Life-boat James...