LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Coast Fog Signal Experiments
THE general public, and especially those who live or have their business in the metropolis, have recently experienced the bewildering effects of fog on land, and will, perhaps, on that account have a sympathetic interest in what is being...
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And (Left) the Following Week Was Taken to Sea By Crew Members Peter Evans (I) and John Clowes for An Inspection of the River As Part of a Drive to Improve Local Lifesaving
and (left) the following week was taken to sea by Crew Members Peter Evans (I.) and John Clowes for an inspection of the river as part of a drive to improve local lifesaving facilities.. - View image in PDF
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(Below) Now That the Twin Ford 27I2E Marine Diesels Have Been Installed Fitting Is Going Ahead of All Pipework Such As Exhaust Closed Water Cooling and Fuel System
(Below) Now that the twin Ford 27I2E marine diesels have been installed, fitting is going ahead of all pipework, such as exhaust, closed water cooling and fuel systems, as well as electric wiring for controls.. - View image in PDF
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Heather George
FITTER PUT ABOARD MOTOR TRAWLER Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford. At nine o'clock on the morning of the 17th November, 1962, a message was received that the motor trawler Heather George, of Swansea, had broken down and had anchored half a...
List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1860
FROM THE 1st JANUARY TO THE 31st DECEMBER, 1860.
Jan. 5, 1860.—Voted the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, and II. to SAMUEL DUNN, in acknowledgment of his intrepid and prompt services in rescuing, at...
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A Yacht
All in a season's work RNLI Divisional Inspector Colin Williams gives a round up of all things operational this Spring in the island of Ireland Our crews experience everything that the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean can muster, as...
The Poo
Weymouth, Dorset. At 10.35 p.m.
on I5th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen between Weymouth and Portland harbour. The coxswain informed a member of the inshore rescue scheme who...
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, '* L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in 1824....
Category: Medals
The S.S. Dicky, of Liverpool and the S.S. Leeds City
Faltnouth, Cornwall.—At ten o'clock on the same night a vessel in Falmouth Harbour signalled for help by whistle and rocket, and the motor life-boat Crawford and Constance Conybeare put out. A whole southerly gale was then blowing, with...
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The motor life-boat K.E.C.F. was launched at 7.15 A.M. on the 3rd June, in a moderate S.E. breeze, with a moderate sea, and landed the body of a man who had died on board the Lucifer lightship, which is stationed about eight miles N.E. of...