LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heaving the Lead
OF the different guides to which the mariner has recourse in providing for the safety of his vessel as she forces her way through the trackless deep, none is of more importance, as none is more ancient, than that of the sounding-line and...
Category: Articles
Veteran of the Rohilla Rescue Henry Vernon Renamed Rohilla and Photographed In 1935 When She Was Privately Owned
Veteran of the Rohilla rescue, Henry Vernon, renamed, Rohilla, and photographed in 1935 when she was privately owned.. - View image in PDF
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The Fourth Part of the World
The Fourth Part of the World
By Toby Lester
Review by Peter Bradley
In ancient times the Earth, placed at the centre of the cosmos, was known to have three parts: Asia, Europe and Africa....
Category: Articles
The Hopper Novia Magum
Dover, Kent.—At 5.12 on the morning of the 10th of June, 1954, the Sandgate coastguard rang up to say that the Dutch tug Loire had wirelessed that she had been towing the hopper Novia Magum, which had two men on board, but that the hopper...
The New Fowler Tractor
THE newest type of tractor now being used by the Institution is a develop- ment of the 95 b.h.p. Challenger III diesel crawler tractor made by Messrs.
John Fowler and Company (Leeds) Limited.
The standard...
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The Sailing Barge Astrild
MAY 2ND. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 2.40 in the morning a message was received from Southend coastguard that a vessel was burning flares and firing rockets three miles east of Southend pier. A strong easterly breeze was blowing, and...
Portrait on the Cover
THE cover picture on this quarter's journal is of Coxswain Richard Muir of Seaham. He was appointed on the 21st November, 1962, four days after the life-boat disaster in which the previous coxswain, J. T. Miller, lost his life while on...
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The Helwick Lightvessel
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 10.40 on the morning of the 16th of March, 1961, the Trinity House depot informed the honorary secretary that a doctor was needed on board the Helwick lightvessel.
The weather was fair. There was no...
Services of Life-Boats Belonging to the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—On the 24th July, at 8 P.M., a flat was seen to drive into broken water on the Barnard Wharf Sand, off Fleetwood. The Fleetwood life-boat proceeded at once to her aid ; she proved to be the William, of Liverpool, coal...
Category: Services
Above: the Pilot's View
Above: The pilot's view as he approaches his target. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs