LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tango
TOW FOR YACHT WITH SAILS BLOWN AWAY Selsey, Sussex. At 7.5 on the evening of the 6th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat with three people on board, which was close inshore off Elmer Sands, was...
Life-Boat Exhibition
THROUGH the kindness of the organ- izers of the Engineering and Marine Exhibition (formerly the Shipping, Engineering and Machinery Exhibition), held at Olympia, from 16th Septem- ber to 2nd October of this year, the Institution was given...
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Crab Boats
Sheringham, Norfolk - At 2.6 p.m.
on 8th April, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that four Sheringham crab boats were at sea in a very thick fog and might have difficulty in finding the passage back to the...
CREWS HEAD INLAND
Lifeboat crew never quite know what to expect when they’re called out. But even they must have been surprised to be deployed away from the coast.On 30 December, Girvan lifeboat crew members went to the aid of 12 people stranded on a bus in a...
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Tranio
Galway Bay, Co. Galway.—The steam trawler Tranio, of Milford Haven, ran on the rocks in Killeany Bay, during foggy weather on the morning of the 4th March, 1938. She was bound for the fishing grounds and had a crew of eleven on board. A...
Notes on Building a Life-Boat
IN the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL an account was given of the steps taken to select a new Life-boat, and it may now be of interest to give a few notes as to the way she is built.
For many years, indeed since 1899,...
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Coastguard changes
At the time of going to print, the RNLI was awaiting the outcome of a UK Government consultation on the modernisation of the Coastguard service. Under Government proposals, the number of maritime rescue coordination centres (MRCCs) around...
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Outboard: Speed and Power
ATLANTIC 21 AND D CLASS inshore lifeboats, out on trials, are a familiar sight in the Solent; testing and proving the vast amount of detailed development work which, over the past 15 years or so, has been quietly going ahead at the RNLI...
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RNLI News
RNLI's largest bequestThe RNLI has recently received its largest legacy ever.
The bequest is eventually expected to total some £6.5m, and will be a great help to the Institution in providing new lifeboats and...
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A Sailing Boat
AUGUST 29TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 3.50 in the afternoon the military look-out post on Greenore Point reported a sailing boat in distress off the point. A strong westerly wind was blowing with a rough sea, and the coxswain...