LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
November Meeting.
North Sunderland, Northumberland.— At 9 A.M. on the 9th October the sea was making fast, and one...
Category: Services
Testing Times
The problems encountered by lifeboat designers seeking extra speed have been mentioned before in these pages, as boat design is never as straightforward as it may seem. Increased speed is not just a question of bigger engines or even just of...
Category: Articles
Cunopus
Sails blown out RED FLARES SIGHTED in the vicinity of Les Hanois Lighthouse were reported to the honorary secretary of St Peter Port lifeboat station at 2215 on Friday, November 11, 1977. A quarter of an hour later the 52ft Arun lifeboat Sir...
(Above) Rnlb Shoreline Is Named and Lt Alan Late Divisional Inspector {North East) Leads Three Cheers for Sir Alec Rose
(Above) RNLB Shoreline is named . . . and Lt Alan late, divisional inspector {North East) leads three cheers for Sir Alec Rose.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ruth of London
On the 17th Octo- ber, the brig Ruth, of London, went ashore on Saunton Sands during squally weather.
The George and Catherine life-boat put off and rescued the crew of 9 men. The cap- tain of the vessel communicated to the...
I FLOATED TO LIVE
Each issue we share with you stories of courageous rescues by our lifesavers, but this last year we’ve been hearing from you too. Thanks to our Respect the Water campaign, there has been a different kind of rescue happening around our coasts...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Services of the World: Portugal
By VICE-ADMIRAL HYPACIO DE BRION, Inspector and Secretary of the Instituto de Soccorros y Naufragos.UNTIL 1892, Portugal, although a mari-j time country, situated on the western l extreme of the European Continent, and:, on the route for all...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BLACKPOOL.—The boat, which has recently been sent to this station by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIM-BOAT INSTITUTION, was designed by Mr. G. L. WATSON, Con- salting Naval Architect to the Institution, specially to meet the views of the Black- pool...
Category: Articles
News from the Branches
Eastbourne.
AFTER the very successful Life-boat Day held at Eastbourne on the 31st July, by which the sum of over £550 was raised, the following letter appeared in the Eastbourne papers from...
Category: Branches
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1887
Jan. 4.—The crew of a Coastguard boat put oft' from Bognor, Sussex, and saved the crew of four men, and a female passenger from the schooner Elizabeth Curry, of London, which stranded at Middleton Point, during a strong S.E. wind, a...
Category: Articles