LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
THE CHANNEL ISLANDS AND THEIR LIFE-BOATS.
XLVII. GUERNSEY. The John Lockett, 32 feet by 7 feet 8 inches, 10 oars.
XLVIII. ALDERNEY. The Mary and Victoria, 33 feet by 8 feet 6 inches, 10...
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Tradesman and Masterman
Penlee, Cornwall.—About one o'clock on the afternoon of the llth of Novem- ber, 1950, the coastguard reported an S.O.S. message from the tug Tradesman.
The tug Masterman, of Falmouth, at anchor in Mounts Bay with a crew...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
POOLE.—This Life-boat station has recently been completely renovated, the boathouse and slipway having been altered and improved, and the Life-boat, which was no longer fit for further i service, having been replaced by another and larger...
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The French Life-Boat Society. Boat-House With Movable Platform at La Joliette, Marseilles
THE Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages has recently found itself obliged to provide a pontoon boat-house for one of its motor boats, owing to the difficulty of obtaining a satisfactory site for a boat-house and slipway in the...
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Sea Pink
Plymouth, Devon - At 4.30 p.m. on 17th April, 1968, it was learnt that a sailing dinghy had capsized close to the Longroom signal station. The life-boat Thomas Forehead and Mary Rowse slipped her moorings at 4.37 in a gusty east south...
Cover Picture
Sunset watch for the Margate lifeboatman, a memorial to nine men who lost their lives in the early morning of December 2, 1897, when Margate town surf boat Friend of All Nations capsized on her way to help the ship Persian Empire of West... - View image in PDF
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Talking With John Tyrrell FRINA
'We've been building boats here for 110 years now, and before that we were sailors and fishermen. Always in Arklow.
It was a very small town devoted, at that time, solely to seafaring. Nothing...
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Inflatable Tube and Rigid Hull Meet
Inflatable Tube And Rigid Hull Meet. - View image in PDF
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New Life-boats Sent to the Coast
After the first sixteen months of the war the building of new life-boats almost ceased, and during the five years, eight months and five days of war, the Institution was able to send to the coast only seventeen new life-boats instead of the...
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Dr. Joseph Soar, M.B.E., of St. David's
IN the New Year's Honours Dr. Joseph Soar, Mus. Doc., F.R.C.O., A.R.C.M., the organist of St. David's Cathedral, and for twenty-one years the honorary secretary of the life-boat station at St.
David's, was made...
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