LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1874-75
THE wreck statistics of the twelve months ending in June, 1875, certainly record the most numerous casualties that have hitherto taken place in one year. The officers of H.M. Coastguard and Board of Trade have left not a single shipping ac-...
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The Aberdeen Trawler Ben Arthur
TRAWLER DRIFTING At 6.17 a.m. on 3rd March, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Aberdeen trawler Ben Arthur was dragging her anchor and drifting on to the shore at Goat Islands in Stornoway Harbour, and that her...
Dreamer II
Selsey, Sussex.—At 4.45 on the night of the 27th of July, 1957, the coast- guard telephoned that the yacht Dreamer II, of Bosham, needed help six and a half miles south of Selsey.
At 11.58 the life-boat Canadian Pacific was...
6. Amy, Daughter of Gary Collett, a Boat Builder at the Ilc, Presents a Bouquet to Lynn Faulds Wood
6. Amy, daughter of Gary Collett, a boat builder at the ILC, presents a bouquet to Lynn Faulds Wood during the naming ceremony of the Mersey class lifeboat Bingo Lifeline. Photo Janet Smith The two naming ceremonies are described in more... - View image in PDF
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Functional Clothing Ltd
THE BEST WEATHER CLOTHING IN THE WORLD AIRFLOW COAT JACKET & LIGHTWEIGHT JACKETS ARE WATEPPPOOF & FREE COMOerNJBATIOlM FROrV ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION letter of 28 February 1974 from Assistant Superintendent (Stores) •...
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Tractor Trials at Aberystwyth
TRIALS of the prototype of a new tractor for launching life-boats—a powerful Fowler tractor with a 95 h.p. diesel engine—were held at Aberystwyth in November. Members of the com- mittee of management and officials of the Institution were...
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In Portsmouth Dockyard on 23rd June, 1966, the Second Oakley 48-Foot 6-Inch Life-Boat Was Capsized Twice for the Benefit of the Press and a Large Unofficial Gathering of Naval and Civilian Dockyard Personnel
In Portsmouth dockyard on 23rd June, 1966, the second Oakley 48-foot 6-inch lifeboat was capsized twice for the benefit of the Press and a large unofficial gathering of naval and civilian dockyard personnel. Here she is shown righting and... - View image in PDF
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Marie May
Hythe and Dungeness (Kent).
At 6.30 in the evening of llth November, with a 70-mile an hour gale blowing from the S.W., a very heavy sea running, and poor visibility on account of heavy rain, the Coxswain at Hythe received...
Coast Fog Signal Experiments
THE general public, and especially those who live or have their business in the metropolis, have recently experienced the bewildering effects of fog on land, and will, perhaps, on that account have a sympathetic interest in what is being...
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The Watson (Cabin) Type of Motor Life-Boat
By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boatsALTHOUGH the Barnett (Twin Screw) Boat, built for the Station at New Brighton, was the first Cabin Life-boat to be laid down for the Institution's fleet, the...
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