LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 5
IN treating of Mr. Beeching's Life-boat (in the last article on this subject) which ; was sent to Ramsgate, and which proved ; so successful, omission was made of the ' fact that in 1853 she underwent con-J siderable alterations, in...
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How to Act In Cases of Drowning
IN " Abstract of an Investigation into Asphyxia," just published and presented to the Royal Humane Society .by Dr. MAE- SHALL HALL, opens quite a new view of the way in which suffocation from drowning or other causes should be...
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Books (Including Tim Batstone's Windsurfing Advice)
• WHEN TIM BATSTONE confronted the RNLI with the news that he intended to circumnavigate Great Britain on a sail board and raise money for the Institution, the reaction was decidedly mixed.
Should an organisation so...
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An Eye for Detail In Lifeboat Design
IN THE AUTUMN issue we published two pictures illustrating lifeboat propeller tunnel construction.
Here to round off the story is a photograph of the same detail in a completed 48' 6" Solent slipway lifeboat. Note...
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Barrow to Poole: Log By Alec Moore Assistant Mechanic of Barrow Lifeboat Station
SEPTEMBER 1982 Extracts from the log of Acting Motor Mechanic ALEC MOORE of the delivery trip of the 46ft 9in Watson lifeboat Herbert Leigh at the end of her time as a station boat; she is now in the relief fleet. For the voyage the other...
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'Their hearts must have sunk as they watched us pass them'
It was an overcast morning on 26 August when a father and son began their fishing holiday in Cruden Bay, Aberdeen - a trip that gave them more drama than they bargained for
RNLI Peterhead...
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The Fund Raisers
Air support During a weekend in October BBC Radio Newcastle ran a lifesaver appeal to raise money for the lifeboat service.
Listeners rang in to pledge money or to offer items for a charity auction, and many organisations,...
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May Fly
Ramsgate, Kent. At 3.28 on the afternoon of the 12th of October, 1959, the east pier watchman told the honorary secretary that a yacht was unable to make Ramsgate harbour and was dragging her anchor and in danger of going ashore. Six minutes...
Victorian photographer’s art of glass
In a nod to his craft’s Victorian heritage, one Newcastle-based photographer is visiting every lifeboat station with his 110-year-old camera and glass plate technology.
Using a former NHS ambulance as a mobile darkroom,...
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