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Our Merchant Seamen

Date: October 1864

Volume: 05

Issue: 54

THE Committee of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Society have published the following additional appeal on behalf of the establishment of an Asylum or Hospital, for aged Mariners at Belvedere, near Gravesend.

A...

Category: Committee

The Wood for the Trees

Date: Summer 1995

Volume: 54

Issue: 533

The air is heavy with the unmistakable smell of sawn timber and Stockholm tar and jangles gently to the sound of a distant bandsaw as I watch a boatbuilder ease a plank into place around the gaunt frames of an 18ft launch under construction....

Category: Articles

The Launch of the "Ipswich" Life-Boat

Date: July 1862

Volume: 05

Issue: 45

IN our January Number we gave an account of the spirited and philanthropic exertions of the inhabitants of Ipswich, headed by Mr. BATEMAN BYNG, to raise a fund for the establishment of a Life-boat station on the coast, and stated that so...

Category: Articles

Llanishen

Date: Autumn 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 510

Ten hour service to burning coaster Yarmouth South East Division The coxswain and crew of Yarmouth's Arun class lifeboat John and Joy Wade have received a letter of thanks from the Director of the RNLI for their part in a 10-hour service...

Tenby September 29 1986:

Date: Autumn 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 498

Tenby, September 29, 1986: Summer was officially over, yet on this day Tenby was bustling with visitors, and overcast skies cleared miraculously by afternoon allowing the sun to shine warmly on a town celebrating a very special event. It was... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Coastal Life

Date: Autumn 2007

Volume: 60

Issue: 582

coAstAL LiFe Red sky in the morning In the 1979 Fastnet race, 15 lives were lost when yachts were caught in hurricane force winds and what the weathermen called ‘phenomenal’ seas. Bethany Hope investigates how 21st century weather...

Category: Articles

Notes of the Quarter

Date: September 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 385

THE 37-feet life-boat, which is described in detail on page 91, adds one more development to an impressive list of major improvements in the design and construction of life-boats and life-saving equipment in the past six or seven...

Category: Articles

Life-Saving Apparatus at Sea

Date: August 1887

Volume: 13

Issue: 145

The following is the text of the report of the committee appointed by the Board of Trade to consider the question of boats, rafts, and life-saving apparatus carried by sea-going merchant ships: — " Liverpool, 25 October,...

Category: Articles

Below Left - Federation Representatives and Crew

Date: Summer 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 549

Below left - Federation representatives and crew members get a chance to look over each other's lifeboats and have a chat. - View image in PDF

All photos this page: Sebastian Studios. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

(Right) Noisy and Spectacular

Date: Summer 1997

Volume: 55

Issue: 541

(right) Noisy and spectacular - one of the Coastguard's helicopters arrived each day to give spectators a close-up of transfers to and from an Atlantic off the depot quay.. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs