LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Zircon
On the bar TWO RED FLARES sighted on the south side of Portmadoc Estuary, near and inside the bar, were reported to the honorary secretary of Pwllheli lifeboat station by Coastguard Porthdinllaen at 0035 on Thursday, September 1. The wind...
The S.S. Martha
PILOT WANTED Ezmouth, Devon.—About 8.15 on the night of the 9th of January, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was burning flares and signalling be- tween two and three miles off Sidmouth, and the motor life-boat Catherine Harriet...
Arantzazu
The Span- ish steamer Arantzazu, of Bilbao, stranded six miles south of Haile Buoy on the 14th January, while bound laden from Bilbao to Imming- ham. She carried a crew of twenty- nine. She wirelessed for help and the motor life-boat City of...
An Aeroplane (3)
JANUARY 16TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM. A British aeroplane had crashed into the sea in a mined area, but the life-boat was recalled and naval vessels went out.- Rewards, £6 12s.
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Deck Ban.
Kg. 3.
Kg. 4.
; Body Han, Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats,...
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The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. l.
. Sheer Plan.
Fig. 2.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of...
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A Fishing Boat (2)
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN. — On' the 14th October, at about 10 A.M., the wind suddenly became squally from the W.
The Coastguard officer gave information that a fishing-boat was in danger outside Lifeof Long Rack, and as...
Veteran Collecting Box
When Mrs. V. M. Waldock, of Chislehurst, Kent, attended the annual meeting of the R.N.L.I. on 9th April, 1968, she brought with her her original life-boat collecting box which she had 'some time before 1930 from a Miss Lawson who was the...
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Amstalkirk and Algorab
NO V . 2 5 T H . - WALMER, KENT. The life-boat went out to the help of the Dutch steamer Amstalkirk in a full south-west gale, with very rough seas and dense rain. She was then told to go to another Dutch steamer, the Algorab, of Rotterdam,...
Yacht Symphony II
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 19th of June, 1953, the Needles coastguard rang up to say that the motor vessel Austerity hadwirelessed that she had the ten-ton sloop yacht Symphony II, with a crew of six, in tow about...