Launch from the beach of Charles Fred Grantham, Skegness's present 37ft Oakley lifeboat, by carriage and tractor.. - View image in PDF
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The following drawings show the general outline and principal fittings of a 34 feet by 7i feet self-righting boat. Figure 1 gives the profile or broadside view, the shaded part showing that devoted to the air-cases, which give extra buoyancy...
Category: Articles
AT the Annual Meeting the Prince of Wales was able to announce that, as a result of his appeal to the big passenger liner companies three years ago, no fewer than five new Motor Life-boats were now on the coast, the gifts of six of these...
Category: Articles
On the 20th February two ketches belonging to Belfast, named the Witch of Wave and the Azur, put into Cloughey Bay when bound for Portaferry. The vessels ex- pected to get away the next morning, but a gale had sprung up and continued blowing...
LOWESTOFT. — The attention of the coxswain of the Life - boat, Samuel Plinsoll, was called to a steamer which was showing flares for a pilot, on the night of 15th May, and on looking at her he saw that her course was taking her towards the N...
MARCH 10TH. - TROON, AYRSHIRE. At 11.30 P.M. on 9th March, the duty naval officer at Ardrossan reported the S.S. Asteria, of Glasgow, ashore on Eagle Rock, off Ardrossan breakwater, and in need of help. She was a vessel of 694 tons gross, in...
WEXFORD.—On the 25th April, at 11.30 A.M., the s.s. Montagu, of Liverpool, was observed ashore on the south side of the East Bar Channel. The Civil Service Life-boat was at once launched, and was taken in tow by the steam-tug Ruly, which had...
IN 1930 the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands, and placed there a 51-feet Barnett (Stromness) Motor Life-boat, the largest and most powerful type which it is now building. (A full description of this...
Category: Inaugurations
At the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION, held at St. Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road, on Saturday, the 18th day of March, 1899, the Eight Hon.
the Earl of DERBY, K.G-., G.C.B.,...
Category: Annual Reports
DURING the past three years excellent histories have been written, and pub- lished locally, of six life-boat stations.
Rhyl celebrated its centenary in 1952,"and The Story of Rhyl's Life- boats, 1852 to 1952 was...
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