LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Beaufort Wind Scale
BEAUFORT WIND SCALE Force 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Limits of wind speed in knots (A knot is one nautical mile per hour) Less than 1 1-3 4-6 7-10 11-16 17-21 22-27 28-33 34-40 41 7 48-55 56-63 64+ Description Calm Light air Light breeze...
Category: Articles
Minehead's First
Readers might be interested in this picture of Minehead's first lifeboat, George Leicester.
In my connection with a rural museum, I was asked to print some pictures from glass negatives - among them I found this picture... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
For Cruise
Mr. John Taylor, aged 16, of Cullercoats, North Shields, whose father, Mr. R. J. Taylor, is a leading member of the Cullercoats ILB and was an officer for 12 years in the conventional life-boat previously stationed there, has been accepted...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 14th September, 1893.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre-...
Category: Committee
Headcase
The RNLI first issued protective helmets to their Waveney class lifeboat crews in the 1960's At some four knots faster than the older classes of 8 or 9 knot double-ended lifeboats, some concern was expressed about crew members'...
Category: Articles
Divers In Difficulties
Cromer'sTyne was also involved in this service on 29 August, with the station's D class inflatable, when three divers were rescued after getting into difficulties.
Two men and a woman from a university diving club... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Picking Up Hospital Cases Is One of the Many Duties Undertaken By Life-Boats
Picking up hospital cases is one of the many duties undertaken by life-boats. Here a seaman from the Esso tanker s.s. Canterbury, who was suffering from acute appendicitis, is being lowered to the Valentia life-boat from Kerry,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Prince Ivanhoe (2)
Prince Ivanhoe THE PLEASURE STEAMER Prince Ivanhoe with a crew of 18 and 450 passengers was on a cruise from Minehead to the Welsh Coast on Monday August 3, 1981, when, at 1536. she struck anunderwater obstruction off Port...
Norwegian Dream and the Container Vessel Ever Decent (1)
Collision Aftermath The collision between the cruise liner Norwegian Dream and the container vessel Ever Decent off the coast of Kent in the early hours of Tuesday 24 August 1999 comes as a sharp reminder of how important it is to be...
Rnli Kensington
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