LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Boat Shows
SHOWS Thanks to the generous free space allocated by the organisers, the RNLI was able, for the second year running, to display a lifeboat at the 1985 London International Boat Show. She was the 33ft Brede class, Safeway, destined for...
Category: Articles
The Blackpool Life-Boat Maria Noble Landing An Injured Man on 1st March 1968 Coxswain JW Gerrard Is on the Extreme Right
The Blackpool life-boat Maria Noble landing an injured man on 1st March, 1968. Coxswain J.W. Gerrard is on the extreme right.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Louisa, of Bristol
On the 1st January, whilst the ship Louisa, of Bristol, was being towed over Bideford Bar by two steamers during a strong gale from W.S.W., the hawser attached to one steamer break- ing, and the towing-gear of the other giving way, she let...
The S.S. Keynes
Caister, Norfolk.—At 9.50 on the morn- ing of the 15th of August, 1955, localshipping agents asked if the life-boat would take ashore a sick man from the S.S. Keynes, of London, which was lying at anchor two miles north-west of North Cockle...
Hotting up
UPKinsale lifeboat crew tackled their biggest casualty on 2 February when the relief B class Walters Lifeboat brought in the 35-tonne Paulona. The 12m fi shing vessel was heading for Baltimore when the engine’s temperature started to rise...
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(Above) the 47Ft Tyne Class Lifeboat Arriving
(Above) The 47ft Tyne class lifeboat arriving to go on display at Earls Court. - View image in PDF
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Signals for Pilots
Required to be used and displayed on and after the 1st November, 1873, in accordance with the 19th section of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1873, if a vessel requires the services of a Pilot.
"In the Day-time.—The...
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Raven
RHYL.—On the 8th November, at about 3 P.M., the Jane Dalton Life-boat proceeded to the aid of the sloop Haven, of Liverpool, which had lost her mainsail, and, becoming unmanageable, had been driven ashore at Plastirion Point. The...
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CHILD TO HOSPITAL Stronsay, Orkneys. At 3.25 p.m. on 11 th October, 1965, the secretary of the hospital board told the honorary secretary that there was a child on the Isle of Sanday in need of urgent hospital treatment. The life-boat The...
Considerable Work Was Needed to Protect Wells' New Boathouse from Erosion.
Considerable work was needed to protect Wells' new boathouse from erosion. Greenheart is ideal for this use, and timber from the demolished slipway at Eastbourne was re-used.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs