LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Screw Steamer Akaba
Early in the morning of the 10th November, the crew of a fishing lugger arrived at Gorleston, and reported that they had seen flares and rockets about the lower part of Winterton Eidge. A gale from the S.E. by E. was blowing at the time, and...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats carried out their tenth consecutive collection on behalf of the Institution on 1st August, when the Cullercoats and Whitley Bay Life-boat held its quarterly road exercise and launch. By collecting this year over...
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The Danish Ship Habet
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 12.20 a.m. on I3th February, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish ship Habet had requested the help of the life-boat to take a sick man off as he required medical attention. The...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—On the 23rd of January, 1953, the Irish Lights Commissioners asked if the life- boat would land a man from the Black- water Lightvessel. His sister had died in Wexford, and the Commissioners' own boat was...
The Bar Lightvessel
New Brighton, Cheshire.—At 9.35 on the morning of the 3rd of January, 1957, the marine surveyor of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board telephoned to say that a member of the crew of the Bar lightvessel had been suddenly taken ill. As the...
Narwhal and the lolanthe
Tynemouth, Northumberland.—At six in the evening of the 16th of October, 1948, the coastguard telephoned that two sailing yachts were becalmed in fog,jone to the north of the pier and the other to the south, and that they were a danger...
The Billy Boy Annie
About 12.20 P.M. on the 10th February the Coxswain of the No. 2 Life-boat observed the Billy-boy Annie, of Grimsby, being towed over the bar outward bound, when the tow-rope suddenly broke and the Billy- boy drifted rapidly towards the North...
The Sailing Coble Egret
SAILING COBLE TAKEN IN TOW Newbiggin, Northumberland. At 2.41 on the afternoon of the 12th April, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the sailing coble Egret, which was on a pleasure trip from Amble to Blyth, was making...
The Modern Lifeboat Exhibition
SCIENCE MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON FEBRUARY 21-APRIL 21 OPEN: WEEKDAYS, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
SUNDAYS, 2.30 p.m.-6 p.m.
FOR TWO MONTHS in the spring of its 'Year of the Lifeboat' the RNLI is staging an...
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The Mariner's Compass
By Staff-Commander F. J. EVANS, R.N., F.R.S., Superintendent of Compasses to the Admiralty.
[IN the 47th Number of this Journal, when giving a drawing and a short description of the Fluid Compass supplied by this...
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