LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Orkney Coxswain Wins Second Silver Medal
COXSWAIN Daniel Kirkpatrick of Longhope has achieved the unusual distinction of being awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for the second time. His second award was made for the rescue of nine men from the Aberdeen...
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Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...
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The Running:
• The running: crossing the line after 26 miles and 385 yards is Cliff Deane (No 8945), the author's husband, who was one of the stalwart band of RNLI supporters who ran the London Marathon to raise money for the lifeboats . .... - View image in PDF
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Gomer Press (The Men of the Mumbles Head)
THE MEN OF THE MUMBLES HEAD Carl Smith A Pictorial Story of The Mumbles Life-boat from 1832 to the present day.
Available in: Case-bound £3.50 Limp-cover £1.95 ISBN 85088 384 9 8±" x 7± 86 pages, 56...
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The Fire at Cowes
The remains of the Watson cabin motor life-boats from Yarmouth, Isle of Wight and Selsey, Sussex. Nothing is left forward but the keels, deadwoods and iron floor-straps. On the left can be seen the forward steel bulkhead of the engine-room... - View image in PDF
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The Naval Hammock—Its Buoyancy and Use In Saving Life at Sea—In Cases of Collision, Etc
IT is well known that the boats of a man- of-war are, as a general rule, insufficient in number and capacity to save her crew except in the smoothest water; also, that the largest and safest are stowed on the booms, from whence time is...
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St.Helier Jersey August 23 1987:
ST HELIER, JERSEY, August 23, 1987: the 44ft Waveney class lifeboat Thomas James King takes in tow the 48ft cabin cruiser La Belle Dame after a MAYDAY alert, when the Shoreham-based vessel hit the Hinguette reef at 1418 and began to sink.... - View image in PDF
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Five Pence a Bucket of Water Lop a Bag of Soggy Pig Food
Five pence a bucket of water, lOp a bag of soggy pig food. That was the going rate for tormenting poor Edward Childs, a crew member of Port Isaac lifeboat in the stocks during the station's annual Lifeboat Larks. Bob Young (far left),... - View image in PDF
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Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1795—1900. No. 2
AFTER the valuable work done by Lukin in 1807, in initiating the Norfolk and Suffolk type of Life-boat, there appears to have been a considerable period before any new type found a place on the coast. No doubt small variations from the...
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Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Grampian D class: Aug 12 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: Aug 2, 3 (twice), 7 (twice), 13, 14, 17 (twice), 20, 24, Sept 4, 5 (twice), 11 and 26 Abersoch, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic21: Aug4,17,23,28 (five times), Sept 5, 11 and 14...
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