LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fail Safe Part Ii: Upright Again - and Then What? By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
IN THE FIRST PART of this article, published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, we recalled the righting after capsize on service of four of the Institution's lifeboats and looked at the designer's work which had made possible the...
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Capella, of the Faroe Islands
AUGUST 28TH. - ST. MARY’S, ISLES OF SCILLY. At 9.45 in the morning the coastguard reported a fishing vessel, about six miles south-east-by-east of St. Martin’s Head, not under control. A fresh westerly gale was blowing and the sea was very...
569 Lives Rescued
Life-boats have rescued 569 lives this year up to the end of November, The summer was the busiest the Service has ever had except in the year of the Battle of Britain, and September was the busiest September on record..
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RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
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Beaumaris RNLI hears bells
When Beaumaris lifeboat volunteers heard bells at the wedding of Crew Member...
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October (1)
KIRKWALL, ORKNEYS. On the afternoon of the 2nd of August, 1946, a Polish soldier was off Crow Nest Point, in Kirkwall Bay, on a raft and being blown out to sea. A westerly breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. At the request of the...
Category: Services
The Children of High Bank Nursery School Swinton Manchester
The children of High Bank Nursery School, Swinton, Manchester, and their parents raised £293.50 for the RNLI in memory of their late head teacher, Miss Constance M.
Hardman; while the children pile into their... - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat As Ambulance
ON the evening of Christmas Day the Life-boat at St. Ives was launched in response to signals from the Godrevy Lighthouse. The Boat was launched over the soft sand with considerable difficulty, some of the seventy-five launchers going into...
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Winter Storms
4Extreme weather in the fi rst weeks of 2008 meant a busy time for several lifeboat stations. Stornoway’s Severn class lifeboat Tom Sanderson was out in force 11 winds, classed a violent storm, on 1 February. The trawler Spinningdale had run...
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Thetis, of London
On the 19th January, at 10 P.M., the schooner Thetis, of London, foundered 5 miles off St. Catherine's Point, on the south coast of the Isle of Wight. Her crew, 4 in number, took to their boat, and on the fol- lowing morning, between 8...
(Above Left) Exmoiith's Third Lifeboat Victoria a 32Ft Self-Righter Pulling Ten Oars Double-Hanked Was on Station from 1867 to 1884 During Which Time She Rescued 15 P
(Above, left) Exmoiith's third lifeboat, Victoria, a 32ft self-righter pulling ten oars double-hanked, was on station from 1867 to 1884, during which time she rescued 15 people.
In one gale she was hauled on her... - View image in PDF
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