LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
What Are Lifeboats Made Of? By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
For modern boats there is a choice. Wood, glass reinforced plastic, steel and aluminium are all very good, well tried materials. The first three have all been used for RNLI lifeboat hulls while aluminium is used for superstructures. All have...
Category: Articles
Burton, of Colchester
About half-past 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, the brigantine Burton, of Colchester, was entering the Tyne, rather too far north, close by another vessel to windward, which apparently took the wind from the sails of the...
Memento of a Night to Remember: When the 85-Strong Caldicat Male ("»/Ce Choir Together With Soprano Soloist Miss Ann Beynon Gave a Concert at Bournemouth at the In
Memento of a night to remember: When the 85-strong Caldicat Male ("»/ce Choir, together with soprano soloist Miss Ann Beynon. gave a concert at Bournemouth at the invitation of the ladies' guild and Miss Mary Palmer on May 28,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Chase, of Shields
On the 1st Jan- uary, 1867, the brig .Chase, of Shields, was observed near this place with signals of distress flying. The life-boat Parses was conveyed along shore, and launched abreast of the vessel, which had grounded upon Horsey Beach....
Druide, of Aberystwith
on 9th Oct., 1860, saved 5 men from the schooner Druid, of Aberystwyth..
Village Maid, of Fleetwood
on 10th Feb. saved 4 men from the schooner Village Maid, of Fleetwood..
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Abersoch, Caernarvonshire. — On the 29th June Mr. William Owen saw a small sailing boat capsize and ran and told two boatmen, who put out in a motor boat. They found two men and a woman clinging to the keel in an exhausted condition,...
Category: Services
Alnair, of Monrovia
Penlee, Cornwall - At 7 p.m. on 5th July, 1966, news was received that there was a sick man on board the Liberian tanker Alnair of Monrovia, which was some distance out. The life-boat Solomon Browne was launched at 4.25 a.m. on 6th July in a...
Victory, of Hull
During the night of the 27th March the smack Victory, of Hull, bound from the Dogger Bank to that port, was driven ashore north of Withernsea Pier. It was blowing hard from E.S.E., with a heavy sea running and thick rain. The wreck was...