LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 6
AMONG the numerous models sent in for competition for the Northumberland Prize in 1850 there were no less than twenty-one varieties of Life-rafts, some supported by one cylinder, but more by two; some by closed canoes; some by a boat divided...
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Life-Boat Queen of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Miss Carol Hunt, and Her Attendants at the Gala Day Organized By the Local Branch
Life-boat Queen of Ashby-de-la-Zouche, Miss Carol Hunt, and her attendants at the gala day organized by the local branch. The coach is 150 years old. - View image in PDF
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The Biggest Single Donation Ever Received By Port Talbot Branch
The biggest single donation ever received by Port Talbot branch from the efforts of a single person is handed over by Philip Reed, a long distance swimmer. Last September he swam across Swansea Bav from Mumbles Head to Porthcawl, a distance... - View image in PDF
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The Help of An Octopus
THE honorary secretary of the Exmouth station, who raises money for the branch by selling flowers at the boathouse, has found another and unexpected source of revenue. While fishing off Budleigh Salterton in July he caught an octopus. He...
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On the ropes
A kitesurfer, tangled in his lines, was drifting out to sea. He was dangerously close to jagged rocks and was about to take desperate measures
For Tom Davies from Bristol, it was the first time he’d kitesurfed on his own...
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Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March, 1955. 63 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURIXG January life-boats were launched 41 times and rescued 37 lives.
LIFE-BOAT STANDS BY FISHING FLEET Anstruther, Fifeshire.—Oil the after- noon of the 3rd of January, 1955, the wind freshened, and at...
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The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. 3.
"Deck Plan.
Fig. 4.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and airchambers of one of...
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The Dutch Oil Tanker Georgia (1)
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
Raf Association Lifeboatmen of Barry South Wales: Standing (Left to Right): John Wells (Assistant Mechanic) Frank Wells and Norman Long (Mechanic) Sitting: David
RAF Association lifeboatmen of Barry, South Wales: Standing (left to right): John Wells (assistant mechanic), Frank Wells and Norman Long (mechanic). Sitting: David Brooks, Melvyn Hobbs (coxswain), Ray Cridland and John... - View image in PDF
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