LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Below) the Stole Nearest the Body Inflates Automatically When the Wearer Enters the Water
(Below) The Stole Nearest The Body Inflates Automatically When The Wearer Enters The Water. - View image in PDF
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Moving With the Times
From humble beginnings in London's Austin Friars, RNLI Head Office has come a long way from its original one-room operation...
The RNLI started life in the City of London, then the financial centre of the world, and the...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE weekend of 15th/16th August, 1970, was the busiest the life-boat service has known in its entire history. Winds of force 10 or more were blowing, and there was a spate of activity by both life-boats and inshore rescue boats, par-...
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Queen of the Fleet
Oa the 3rd October this Life-boat put off, during a fresh breeze from the N."W., and brought safely ashore from Puma Island 6 persons belonging to the barque Queen of the Fleet, bound from Carnarvon to Liverpool, which had stranded on...
The Humber Light-vessel
The Humber, Yorkshire.—15th October.
A Danish steamer reported the Humber light-vessel as flying a signal for help, but actually the signal was to the steamer, saying : " You should not pass too close to...
At the Oars
The Cresswcll 34-feet pulling and sailing life-boat.. - View image in PDF
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The Dredger Steepholm
Mumbles, Glamorganshire - On 3rd October, 1968, the reserve life-boat Cunard, on temporary duty at the station, went to the aid of the dredger Steepholm. A full account of this service appears on page 546..
The Wells Life-Boat Ernest Tom Neathercoat—A 37-Foot Oakley—Was Built In 1965. She Is a Self-Righter and Is One of About 20 of Her Type In Service With the R.N.L.I., In Addition to Six 48-Foot 6-Inc
The Wells life-boat Ernest Tom Neathercoat—a 37-foot Oakley—was built in 1965. She is a self-righter and is one of about 20 of her type in service with the R.N.L.I., in addition to six 48-foot 6-inch Oakley and Solent class and six 44-foot... - View image in PDF
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The Eleanor and Jane
Information was received at 4.30 P.M.
on the 4th of April, during a moderate N.W. breeze, that a schooner was ashore on the North Stack, and required immediate assistance. The Thomas Fielding Life-boat was quickly taken out...