LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Centenary of the Danish Life-Boat Service
THE Danish Life-boat Service com- pleted its first hundred years on March 26th, 1952. In these hundred years it has rescued 12,414 lives at the cost of 59 lives of its life-boatmen.
The Institution sent it the following...
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Leersum
Penlee, Cornwall. At 5.30 on the even- ing of the 18th of February, 1961, the honorary secretary was informed that there was a call for medical help from the motor vessel Leersum of Amsterdam, which would be off Penlee Point at...
Maartje, of Rotterdam
Dunmore East, Co. Waterford; and Kilmore, Co. Wexford. At 12.20 early on the morning of the 14th July, 1961,pilots at Dunmore East reported that the coaster Maartje of Rotterdam needed help ten miles south-west of Hook Town, as her engines...
A Converted Ship's Boat
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex. At 9.10 on the morning of the 14th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a converted ship's boat had been aground all night alongside Barrow Deep lightvessel. Her crew had no petrol for...
The S.S. Entopan
SICK MAN TAKEN OFF COSTA RICAN STEAMER Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 6.20 on the evening of the 27th January, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the s.s. Entopan of Puerto Limon, Costa Rica, had a sick man on board....
Earn of Fraserburgh
ESCORT FOR FISHING VESSEL IN TOW Arbroath, Angus. At 8.53 on the evening of the 28th April, 1962, the coastguard informed the motor mechanic that a fishing vessel was firing distress rockets two miles off Auchmithie.
Within...
A Motor Boat and a Dinghy
LOST THEIR DINGHY St. David's, Pembrokeshire. At 6.15 p.m. on i8th October, I963,thecoastguard told the acting honorary secretary that two fires and a flashing light had been seen on Ramsey Island. At 6.19 the lifeboat Joseph Soar (Civil...
Bunts
Early on the morning of the 12th October the motor yacht Bunts, bound from Scapa for London, with a crew of three, broke down about eight miles S.S.E. of Scurdy- ness. She had no sails on board and was helpless. A strong W.S.W. breeze was...
Rfd Inflatables Limited
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They were the first company to introduce automatic inflation — the first to produce canopied liferafts — the first to receive Government Approval for liferafts...
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Cover Picture
The Queen, accompanied by the Chairman of the R.N.L.I-, Commander F. R. H. Swarm, O.B.E., R.N.V.R. (right), and Mr. C. G. Rickett, president of the Leander Club, Henley, disembarking from The Royal British Legion Jubilee at Henley on 17th... - View image in PDF
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