LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Heaving the Lead
OF the different guides to which the mariner has recourse in providing for the safety of his vessel as she forces her way through the trackless deep, none is of more importance, as none is more ancient, than that of the sounding-line and...
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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XXXI.—ST. DAVID'S.
Augusta, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars The Augusta was stationed at St. David's in 1869 her cost being subscribed by the Earl of Dart- mouth's tenantry in Staffordshire and...
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July Morn
Broken rudder THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Moelfre lifeboat station was informed by Holyhead Coastguard at 0845 on Sunday September 21, 1980, that the yacht July Morn had reported that she was in difficulties, her rudder broken, 100 yards off...
Zetland
The 200th anniversary of Henry Greathead's Original, THE LIFEBOAT Spring 1990, aroused considerable interest, and we continue the story of early lifeboats with a brief history of Greathead's only survivor... Zetland Henry...
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APRIL 10TH. - SHOREHAM HARBOUR, SUSSEX. Red flares had been seen, but were found to be from naval vessels at exercise. - Rewards, £11..
Night Danger Signals
WHEN it is remembered how large an amount of property, and "what numberless human lives have been sacrificed by the loss of vessels during the night, and more espe- cially on the outlying sandbanks and rocks around out own. coasts, it...
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(Left) Whitby: at a Ceremony of Dedication on May 3 Miss Gwynaeth Milburn Watches As Alan Marshall Branch Chairman Pours Champagne on a New D Class Ilb Th
(Left) Whitby: At a ceremony of dedication on May 3, Miss Gwynaeth Milburn watches as Alan Marshall, branch chairman, pours champagne on a new D class ILB, the second lifeboat she has given to the station; Miss Milburn is also the donor of... - View image in PDF
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Gallant Life-Boatmen of Flamborough. The Rescue of An Injured Boy
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to July 31st, 1951 ....
77,419 Gallant Life-boatmen of Flamborough The...
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Capsize Drill: In Practice the Crew Remain In the Atlantic As She Is Hauled Over By crane So That They Will Fall Beneath the Hull Where They Would Probably Be Should the Boat Be Capsized at Sea In A
Capsize drill: in practice, the crew remain in the Atlantic as she is hauled over bycrane so that they will fall beneath the hull, where they would probably be should the boat be capsized at sea.
In an inverted state the... - View image in PDF
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36 Years a Coxswain
Coxswain George Parkhill, of .Kirkcudbright, has retired on account of illhealth.
The Institution has awarded him a certificate of service and, at his own choice, a gratuity in lieu of a pension. He is 59, and was appointed...
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