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Another Steam Life-Boat

Date: February 1894

Volume: 15

Issue: 171

IN 1890 we had the pleasure of placing before our readers full detailed accounts of the first steam Life-boat ever built.

This vessel was a hydraulic steamboat built for the Institution by Messrs. E. and H. Green, of...

Category: Articles

(Below) a Visit to Hq Operations Room

Date: Summer 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 481

(Below) A visit to HQ operations room followed the opening ceremony. While Mrs Thatcher looks through lifeboat photographs, Mr Denis Thatcher signs the visitors' book.

With them are (I to r) Cdr George Cooper, deputy... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Plowman

Date: July 1869

Volume: 07

Issue: 73

On the 17th No- vember, the smack Plowman, of Yar- mouth, was seen making signals of distress in Yarmouth Roads during a heavy gale of wind from the N.E. The Duff small life- boat went off through a heavy sea, and after several attempts,...

A Trawler (2)

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

The Mumbles, Glamorganshire.—10th January. A trawler had run ashore ten miles west of Mumbles Head, but her crew of eleven were rescued from the shore by the coastguard life-saving apparatus, with the exception of one man who was drowned....

Gifts from Crews

Date: November 1926

Volume: 26

Issue: 288

ON 12th July, 1926, the Rhoscolyn Life-boat launched to and stood by the S.B. Kvrkwynd, of Glasgow, which had stranded, during a thick fog, two miles to the east of Rhoscolyn. The Life-boat returned arid, later, made a second trip to the...

Category: Donations

Fishing Boats

Date: August 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 245

Several of the fishing cobles belonging to Scar- borough were overtaken when at sea by bad weather on the 14th January. All the boats with the exception, of one, which was named the Queensbury, suc- ceeded in getting into safety, but as it...

Present Lizard Station In South-Westerly Gale

Date: March 1960

Volume: 35

Issue: 391

The two photographs on this page were taken on the same day. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Mr. R. C. Baverstock

Date: March 1962

Volume: 37

Issue: 399

MR. R. C. BAVERSTOCK, former Assistant Secretary of the Institution, died on the 21st October. He joined the Institution's staff in 1909, and after a break during the first world war, when he served in the army, he was in the service...

Category: Obituaries

Balancing

Date: Spring 1981

Volume: 47

Issue: 476

Balancing poles are fitted just before the lifeboat is clear of the water. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

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Date: Winter 1973

Volume: 42

Issue: 443

COXSWAIN DIVES FOR BOY IN a life-saving service at St. Ives, Cornwall, on 26th July, 1972, Coxswain Thomas Cocking, who had been taken to the scene by motor launch ahead of the ILB, dived overboard to assist a boy who was in...