LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Disaster to the Rye Life-Boat. The Whole Crew Drowned
THE worst disaster which has fallen on the Life-boat Service for many years occurred on 15th November. It fell with crushing weight on the gallant Life-boat Crew of the little village of Rye Harbour, sweeping away practically the whole adult...
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Brookes & Gatehouse Ltd
Electronic aids to navigation and sailing The chart tpaa In "Winsome", a Nicholson "43" finished by the Berthan Boat Co. Ltd., Lymington.
The navigational instruments, from left to right, are as follows:...
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Progress of the New Fleet
Ix 1949 eleven life-boats were com- pleted and sent to the coast. Another twenty more were under construction when the year ended.
Before the war a life-boat took, on an average, a year to build. After the war the time at...
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The Blackpool Life-Boat Band
THIS is the story of the Blackpool Life- boat Band, which is very proud of being the only Life-boat Band in the world.
Blackpool was a very different place forty-two years ago from the popular seaside resort of to-day, and...
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Atlantic on the Other End of the Tow Line!
Atlantic On The Other End Of The Tow Line!. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Into the Next Trough She Is Almost Vertical (Top Inset).
The sea is so sleep that the bow continues to rise and as she begins to fall back into the next trough she is almost vertical (top inset).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Whilst Filming the Tv Programme Highway
Whilst filming the TV programme Highway in Anstruther Sir Harry Secombe interviewed Coxswain Peter Murray. He was also invited to break open a gallon bottle of whisky at the Craws Nest Hotel releasing £255.88 to be put towards... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Grp Arun's Hull Plug Is Double Diagonal Construction Coated With 18 Coats of Furane Resin, Rubbed Down Hard Between Each Coat. the Ultimate Finish of a Glass Rei
The GRP Arun's hull plug is double diagonal construction coated with 18 coats of Furane resin, rubbed down hard between each coat.
The ultimate finish of a glass reinforced plastic hull is dependent on the fine quality... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
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Journey Up the Thames of the Teesmouth Motor Life-Boat
ON the day on which the International Life-boat display on the Thames finished, and the foreign Life-boats went down the river and out to sea, the Teesmouth Motor Life-boat started on a six weeks' cruise up the Thames. She was in charge...
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