LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
'Paddle Round The Pier’ (pictured)
Hundreds of thousands of visitors flock to Brighton each year for the sun, sea and surf and some found themselves in the midst of an inspired event in the Summer of 2006: ‘Paddle round the Pier’ (pictured).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lans in the grip of the sea: as she lay aground under the cliffs of Hoy her crew of nine were lifted by helicopter to Longhope lifeboat.
Lans in the grip of the sea: as she lay aground under the cliffs of Hoy her crew of nine were lifted by helicopter to Longhope lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Disasters of Sixty and Fifty Years Ago. The Recollections of Eye-Witnesses
SIXTY years ago last September, and fifty years ago this December, life- boats were capsized and lives were lost.
Sixty years ago it was the life-boat at Kingstown, Co. Dublin, which capsized.
Her second...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH DEAL.—Signal rockets and guns having been fired by the Gull Light-vessel on the 4th January, the Life-boat Mary Somerville was launched at about 6.15 P.M., and proceeded towards the Goodwin Sands. The wind was blowing moderately from...
Category: Services
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are—
1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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Life-Boat Families. The Robsons of North Sunderland
The Robsons of North Sunderland.
By Mr. M. R. Norris, Honorary Secretary of the North Sunderland Station.
THERE have been Robsons in the life- boats at North Sunderland for at least ninety-seven years,...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
KILMORE, Co. WEXFORD.—On the 2nd j January 1900 the Life-boat John Robert ' was launched at 1.45 A.M., rockets and guns having been fired from the Barrels Bock Light-vessel. A light S.E. wind was blowing at the time, the sea was moderate...
Category: Services
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1887
THE admirably arranged and deeply interesting Tables compiled from the wreck register which the BOARD OF TRADE publishes each year, bring vividly before the mind the terrible loss of life and property which annually takes place on our coasts...
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Miss Clare Francis Mbe Guest Speaker at the Presentation of Awards Meeting Ended Her Speech By Making a Surprise Presentation of Her Own on Behalf of the Who
Miss Clare Francis, MBE, guest speaker at the presentation of awards meeting, ended her speech by making a surprise presentation of her own. On behalf of the whole crew of ADC Accutrac, the yacht which she skippered in the Whitbread... - View image in PDF
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The Naval Hammock—Its Buoyancy and Use In Saving Life at Sea—In Cases of Collision, Etc
IT is well known that the boats of a man- of-war are, as a general rule, insufficient in number and capacity to save her crew except in the smoothest water; also, that the largest and safest are stowed on the booms, from whence time is...
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