LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Prelude
Mallaig, Inverness-shire - At 6.10 a.m. on 2ist February, 1967, the French trawler Prelude was reported to be in difficulties. Her position was about five miles west of Ardnamurchan Point. The life-boat E. M. M. Gordin Cubbin proceeded at...
Stan Woolaway
Appledore, North Devon and Lifeboat 70-001 - Off the Mumbles - At 4.20 p.m. on I3th March, 1967, the Appledore coxswain was informed that the m.v. Stan Woolaway had a bad list and was thought to be sinking at Mort Point. An R T message...
Life-Boat Transporting Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
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Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED by THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
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Life-Boat Saturday Fund
NUMEROUS demonstrations and collec- tions in connection with the Life-boat Saturday Fund have been arranged and admirably carried out during the past summer. The reports which have come in from all parts of the country indicate that,...
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Nimrod
TWO LIFE-BOATS STAND BY DUTCH MOTOR VESSEL Padstow, Cornwall, and Appledore, Devon. At 8.47 on the morning of the 15th December, 1962, the coastguard informed the Padstow honorary secretary that the motor vessel Nimrod of Groningen had been...
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE past year was an anxious one for the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund and for the Life-boat Saturday Committees generally through- out the country. Owing to the appeals which were made practically in every district, city...
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Ino, of West Hartlepool
On the 10th December, during a heavy gale from S.S.W., the brigantine Ino, of West Hartlepool, was observed making for the shore in an apparently sinking state.
It subsequently appeared that she had been in collision with...
Catherina Regina
The brig Catherina Regina, of Riga, went ashore in Druridge Bay during very stormy weather on the morning of the 7th December. On information of the occurrence being received at the Life-boat Station, the boat was conveyed on her carriage to...
The S.S. Slaney
WEXFOED.—At 9 A.M. on the 15th of January, the Civil Service No. 1 Lifeboat, manned as usual by Custom House officers and pilots, was launched to the assistance of the s.s. Slaney, of and from Liverpool for Wexford, with a general cargo,...