LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part Iv—Skeleton Hull
DURING THE PAST THREE MONTHS, the work of building up the skeleton hull of the lifeboat (Fig, 1), swiftly sketched out in Part III of this article, has been progressing at William Osbornes with meticulous care. Each of the very many pieces...
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Fundraising
It was around this time last year that the Oban lifeboat crew saved the life of an unconscious man who was trapped in icy waters between two fishing vessels in Oban harbour (see winter 2001/02 issue, p.18). The crew's pagers went off...
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Book Corner
more than its members generally realise, upon seamen and the ships they manned. Take away the common sailor and the craft in which, down the centuries, he has carried goods through tempest and fog, past innumerable natural and man-made...
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Bookshelf
No Day Too Long An Hydrographer's Tale by Rear Admiral G. S. Ritchie published by the Pent/and Press at £15.50 ISBN 1 872795 63 3 The chart is such a commonplace item aboard a boat that it is often taken for granted. But spare a...
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Accounts of Services by Life-boats (1)
Launches 18. Lives Rescued 7.
FEB. 11TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.
WEXFORD. At 9.55 P.M. a telephone message was received that the Coningbeg Lightvessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the...
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Hyannis Massachusetts to Rockland Maine By M G K Pennell
THE OPPORTUNITY to visit overseas lifeboat organisations is usually limited to the four-yearly International Lifeboat Conference; to be invited, and spon-' sored privately, to spend a week in the United States for what was to prove a...
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RNLI In Action
RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Month of mudness Helmsman ‘Tommo’Thompson and crew from Exmouth, Devon, rescued two 14-year-olds...
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Looking at Lifeboats
Looking at lifeboats...
the WAVENEY class The first in a series of profiles of lifeboat classes The Waveney was the first of the RNLI's classes of 'fast lifeboat' and originated as a design operated by the US...
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A Fishing Boat (1)
Fishing boat capsized A TELEPHONE CALL was received by the honorary secretary of Penarth lifeboat station at 1311 on Friday September 18, 1981, from The Mumbles Coastguard requesting the launch of the lifeboat: a message had come on VHP...
Rescue Mania
Beautiful clear blue skies were the backdrop for an international rescue event, Rescue Mania 1996. Largely organised by members of the Netherlands Reddingsbrigade and local volunteers, and involving some two years of planning and a week of...
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