LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Silver Medal for Barra Island.
Coxswain Murdo Sinclair, of Barra Island in the Outer Hebrides, has been awarded the silver medal for taking the life-boai 4o miles in a southerly gale and rescuing fifteen lives from a steamer which had been wrecked under the cliff* of Skye...
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On the Road
Mobile Training Unit No. 7 (MTU 7) is one of eight RNLI mobile training units which are dedicated to providing training for lifeboat crews at their own stations. The units vary in size from a small van (MTU 8) to large mobile classroom units...
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Chalk and Cheese...
Travel the length and breadth of the Irish coastline and you will be greeted in almost every harbour of any size by the familiar blue-andorange livery of RNLI lifeboats.
At first this may come as no surprise, but between...
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On 7th August, 1966, the life-boat St. Albans rescued a boy who had fallen over a cliff. An account of this service will appear in the March, 1967, number of THE LIFE-BOAT..
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JULY 24TH. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX. An aeroplane had been reported to have come down in the sea. Another aeroplane and a motor boat joined the life-boat in the search, but nothing could be found and no aeroplane was reported as being missing. -...
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MARCH 31ST. - NEWCASTLE, CO. DOWN.
Red flares had been reported about thirty miles from Newcastle and a search was made, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £57 12s..
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 3rd July, 1879: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., Chairman of the Institution, in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspond- ence, and Wreck and...
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Contents
Train one, save many Page 6 Getting to the finish line safely Page 15 Lifesaving down under Page 27 Letters and membership Including a helmsman's 'thank you' Feature: From rookie to rescuer The next episode in the crew training...
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A Spanish Medal for Coverack
THE silver prize medal which the Spanish Life-boat Society awarded to Coxswain W. A. Rowe, of Coverack, for the rescue of the crew of seventeen of the steamer Mina Cantiquin, on the 4th of November, 1951, and the diplomas awarded to him and...
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Testing Times
The problems encountered by lifeboat designers seeking extra speed have been mentioned before in these pages, as boat design is never as straightforward as it may seem. Increased speed is not just a question of bigger engines or even just of...
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