LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Rather Nice Company
YOUR VERY OWN DELUXE CALENDAR from your favourite photographs Just send us 13 of your favourii wedding, pets or holidays etc. ar totally original month -per- page Whether you keep it for yourse it will take pride of place on th cherished...
Category: Advertisement
On the Variations of the Reading of the Barometer and the Weather In the Months of October and November, 1864
By JAMES GLAISHER, Esq., F.R.S.
THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, are shown in the annexed diagram, including 46 days, ending the 30th of November, daring which period...
Category: Articles
Letters
Understatement of great magnitude We are grateful to L. J. Robertson who, in his letter in the autumn journal, puts so succinctly our own feelings towards the manner of the rescue reports: '. . . understatement of great magnitude . . ....
Category: Correspondence
The High Superstructure of An Arun Class Lifeboat May Make Her Look 'Top Heavy' to Some Eyes But Is the Key to Her Ultimate Stability and Safety
The high superstructure of an Arun class lifeboat may make her look 'top heavy' to some eyes, but is the key to her ultimate stability and safety.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Tonnage Admeasurement. Report of the Royal Commission on Tonnage
FOR very many years the question as to the fairest mode of calculating the tonnage or carrying power of ships has been a vexed and important one. It would, of itself, be one of much less importance were it not that dock-dues, harbour-dues,...
Category: Articles
Shoreline
RNLB Shoreline New members of Shoreline may not be aware that a lifeboat bearing the name of the organisation is stationed at Arbroath.
Built in 1979, RNLB Shoreline is a 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat with a wooden hull...
Category: Articles
Blooming Marvellous
It covers a massive 11 acres of land; features over 60 gardens and 150 floral exhibitions; and is held in the heart of Chelsea, miles from the coast. So what exactly does the greatest flower show on earth have to do with saving lives at sea?...
Category: Articles
The Launch Bat Boat II
Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 11.15 on the morning of the 16th of July, 1960, the coastguard passed on to the honor- ary secretary a report that a motor launch was firing red flares three miles east of Bembridge. The life-boat Jesse Lumb was...
Douglas Lifeboat the 46' 9" Watson R a Colby Cubbin No 1 Which Kept Watch Over Cargo Vessel Ivy Taking Water and Listing on January 3 and 4 Is Seen Here Launching T
Douglas lifeboat, the 46' 9" Watson R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1, which kept watch over cargo vessel Ivy, taking water and listing, on January 3 and 4, is seen here launching to the aid of the pleasure boat White Rose at 1945 on Monday,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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MARCH 5TH. - GALWAY BAY. A man was seriously injured in a bad accident on the island of Kilronan, and it was necessary to take him to hospital on the mainland.
All the local boats were out fishing. So at 1.30 P.M., the...