LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Gem
DECEMBER 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
A crew from Whitby had gone to Bridlington to fetch the motor fishing boat Gem. As the seas were heavy the life-boat coxswain kept a look-out for her. At 6.40 in the evening the...
Services by Auxiliary Rescue-boats
Launches 1 Lives rescued 4 VALENTIA, Co. KERRY. The auxiliary broken down. A strong east-south-east wind rescue-boat, St. Bernard, was returning to harbour on the night of the 22nd of May, was then blowing and the sea was rough.
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Fishing Boats
JAN. 2ND. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
Early in the morning a number of fishing boats went to sea. At about 8.30 A.M. a N.E. gale sprang up and the sea became rough, broken and dangerous between the pier ends and the Rock Buoy. At...
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Deck Plan.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these...
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The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. l.
Deck Plan.
Fig. 3.
Fig. 4.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air...
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H.M. Submarine Thetis
JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface. On the following morning four survivors escaped by...
Shirken
JULY 13TH. - COURTMACSHERRY HARBOUR, CO. CORK. At 5.30 A.M. the coastwatchers reported that a small boat was in distress about five miles S.E. of Oysterhaven, and the motor life-boat City of Bradford 1, on temporary duty at the station, was...
Lifeboat Launches
Lifeboat launches on service during the months September, October and November, 1973 Aldeburgh, Suffolk September 20 and October 7.
Angle, Pembrokeshire September 5 and 22.
Anstruther, Fife September...
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February, March, April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
February Meeting.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow At about 7 P.M. on the 15th December, 1935, five men in the 30-feet motor boat St.
Brendan were engaged hauling their nets when cries for help were heard from...
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Offshore Lifeboat Services for December 1974 January and February 1975
Aith, Shetland December 10.
Amble, Northumberland December 9, 19 and January 28.
Anstruther, Fife December 13.
Arbroath, Angus December 22.
Arklow, Co. Wicklow December...
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