LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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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Girl swimmer MABLETHORPE LIFEBOAT CREW were asked to stand by on the afternoon of Sunday August 26, 1984, after Humber coastguard reported that there were a number of bathers near Tunnel Run outfall where, with the making tide, heavy surf...
Four Aeroplanes
AUGUST. 25TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.
Shortly after 5 P.M. a fierce air battle took place, several enemy machines being shot down. A S.W. breeze was blowing, with a smooth sea. At 5.36 P.M. the coastguard reported four...
The Motor Fleet
" STEADILY onwards," may be said to be the policy of the Institution, in regard to the installation of motive power in its Fleet of Life- boats.
A year ago we gave a description of the various boats which were...
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Boy Jimmy
Cromer, Norfolk.—About nine o'clock on the morning of the 5th of June, 1953, the coxswain of the No. 1 life- boat was returning to Cromer in his fishing boat, when another fishing boat, the White Rose, which had just put to sea, hailed...
The Effect of Steam Fishing-Boats on Small Fishing Communities
IN a former article in this journal (February, 1895) it was pointed out what an important part in the organi- zation of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was occupied by the fisher- men living on the coasts of Great Britain and...
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Coming In Through the Surf
The new Gourdon motor life-boat of the light Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches, by 10 feet 3 inches, arriving at her station last February.. - View image in PDF
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Contents
CONTENTS Notes of the Quarter by the Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 354 Henley Naming Ceremony . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 356 Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 360 New Rother Class...
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Lifeboat Services
South Eastern Division Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy....
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Kieran Cotter Has Been Coxswain of Baltimore Lifeboat
Kieran Cotter has been coxswain of Baltimore lifeboat since 1989, having first joined the crew in 1975.
He was awarded a Bronze Medal in 1991 in recognition of his determination, skill and fine seamanship when the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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