LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the February and March Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Launches 110. Lives rescued 102.
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow_On the night of the 20th November,...
Category: Services
Fig 1:
Fig. 1: While at sea all crew members wear protective clothing, regulation lifejackets and bump caps as well as personal lifelines with which they can secure themselves to jackstays when working on deck.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Island fire
Baltimore’s Tyne class lifeboat Hilda Jarrett was called into action on 18 March, when a fire broke out on Cape Clear Island. Fire crews from Skibbereen were needed on the island, home to around 100 people, and in an emergency the best way...
Category: Articles
Some Unpublished Letters of Sir William Hillary, Bt
His Efforts to Interest the Admiralty in his Scheme for a Life-boat Service.
By Major Evan W. H. Fyers, Member of the Major Fyers, to whose researches we owe the discovery of these very interesting letters of Sir William...
Category: Articles
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to December 31st, 1953 78,497 Notes of the Quarter THE terrible disaster at Arbroath, following...
Category: Articles
Diana V (1)
Dutch coaster A DUTCH COASTER Diana V, in distress 101° 74 miles from Spurn Head, was reported to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Sevan of Humber lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1400 on December 30, 1978; her cargo of maize had...
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Category: Advertisement
The Latest Material to Be Assessed By the Rnli Is Frc (Fibre Reinforced Composite)
The latest material to be assessed by the RNLI is FRC (fibre reinforced composite). Light weight and good abrasion resistance is claimed for the new material and tests with a prototype Mersey (seen above at Newhaven on trials) have been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News
A picture paints a thousand words Getting timely and dramatic images of the lifeboat service to the media is crucial to raising awareness. The RNLI is now investing in new cameras at selected lifeboat stations to bring the heroic work of the...
Category: Articles
Margaret Anne, of Preston
On the 9th February the schooner Margaret Anne, of Preston, laden with coals, was driven ashore north of the harbour of Skerries, in a heavy easterly gale. The Skerries life-boat imme- tliately proceeded to her aid, and took off her crew,...