LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Dido and the Lymington Harbour Master's Launch
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - At 11.10 p.m. on 3ist July, 1966, red flares were reported about 400 yards east of the entrance to Lymington river. At 11.28 the life-boat The Earl and Countess Howe proceeded in a southerly gale. The tide was...
Kathleen
At 8.37 p.m. on 30th July, 1966, it was noticed that a motor boat one mile northnorth- west of Cape Cornwall had fired a distress rocket. The life-boat Susan Ashley was launched at 8.45 in a strong north-westerly wind and a very rough sea....
Double trouble
24 September: Eastbourne Two jet skiers were attempting a passage from Newhaven to the Sovereign Light Tower when one of their craft suffered engine failure. They tried to use the craft that was still working to...
Category: Articles
Ganges (1)
DEAL AND RAMSGATE.—On the 14th October, at about 5 P.M., during a very heavy gale of wind, the Gull Lightship fired signals of distress, in response to which the Deal Life-boat Mary Somerville proceeded to the Goodwin Sands. The Ramsgate...
Inaugural Ceremony of the Aberystwyth Motor Life-Boat
THE inaugural ceremony of the new motor life-boat was held at Aberystwyth on 20th April, in the presence of a large audience. The Earl of Lisburne, Lord- Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, the Bishop of St. David's and the Mayor and Mayoress...
Category: Inaugurations
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. i.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1...
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The Unseaworthy Ships' Commission
THE Royal Commission appointed at the instance of Mr. Plimsoll " to inquire into the alleged unseaworthiness of British registered ships," has issued a " pre- liminary" report. The report is signed by all the...
Category: Articles
Books
Lost Photdgraphiof the RNLI By Edward Wake-Walker Published by Sutton Publishing ISBN 0750937181 Price: £25 • , .
Legendary lifeboat rescues are brought vividly to life in this w book by former* RNU PR Director Edward...
Category: Articles
Sunderland Boat and Lifting Gear Perspective Diagram
THERE are more ways than one of launching a Life-boat. Perhaps the most elementary way now in use is that of pushing her into the water over skids thrown down on the foreshore.
The quickest, and therefore the most...
Category: Drawings
Lifeboat Services
INJURED SEAMAN LANDED IN SEVERE GALE AND COMPLETE DARKNESS Force 9 gale and snow squalls hinder Atlantic 21 rescue in The WashHelmsman Alan Clarke of Hunstanton lifeboat has been awarded a bar to his Bronze medal for a service in the...
Category: Services