LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dramatic View of Three Sisters Seconds Before She Sank. Crew Member Frank Home's White Helmet Can Be See In the Centre of the Group In the Sea As the Navy Inflatable Closes I
A dramatic view of Three Sisters seconds before she sank. Crew member Frank Home's white helmet can be see in the centre of the group in the sea as the Navy inflatable closes in to pick them up. Photo RAF Valley. - View image in PDF
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Carillion of Wight
Thick fog THE WATCHMAN at St Aldhelm's Head Coastguard heard sounds of a vessel striking the rocks below his lookout in thick fog at 2145 on Thursday July 13.
Without delay he alerted the Coastguard Cliff Rescue Company...
The Prince of Wales and the Hastings Life-Boat
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Hastings on 6th April to open the White Rock Pavilion and the new Promenade, he went aboard the Life-boat which was drawn up outside the Life-boat House. Beside the House the fishermen had built a remarkable...
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Keith Downey Nephew of One of the Victims of the Rye Pulling and Sailing Lifeboat Mary Stanford Disaster In 1928 Is Here Shown Demonstrating the Use of Professor Pask's
Keith Downey, nephew of one of the victims of the Rye pulling and sailing lifeboat Mary Stanford disaster in 1928, is here shown demonstrating the use of Professor Pask's aid to resuscitation in the Rye Harbour ILB.. - View image in PDF
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The Wreck Register and Chart: An Aspect of Sea Power
. THE British Empire is the result and embodiment of Sea Power. That is the dominant fact which will strike the future historian of our race, as it does the contemporary student. How is it that these little Islands in the North great...
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A New History of the Life-Boat Service
PEEHAPS the most charming thing in Patrick Howarth's most attractive book* is the way in which he has set his story. As he moves round the coast, apparently quite casually, from one carefully chosen life-boat station to another, he...
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The Barge Sepoy, of Dover, on the Sands at Cromer
The barge Sepoy, of Dover, on the sands at Cromer. Her sails in ribands. Her crew of two men taking to the rigging. A life-saving rocket on its way to her.. - View image in PDF
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Lewis, of Campbeltown
On the 7th December the smack Lewis, of Campbeltown, went ashore off the entrance of Irvine Harbour, the wind blowing a gale from the westward at the time. The life-boat of the Institution sta- tioned there quickly put off to the aid of the...
A New Type of Life-Boat.
Construction b*gan last December1 on the first of a. new type of motor life-bo and three mere of the type have been laid down since. They are a development of tfl powerful Watson cabin type af life-boat. 46 feet long and driven by two 40...
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Literature of the Life-Boat: 1806-1936
SIR JOHN GUMMING, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president of the Institution, has written an account of all books, and articles in periodicals, on life-boat work which the Institution has in its library, or which he has been able to discover...
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