LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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OCT. 25TH. - DOVER, KENT. The motor life-boat Sir William Hillary was launched at 4.50 P.M. at the request of the chief of staff of H.M. Naval Base at Dover. A strong E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. As the service was of a...
Emergency Evacuation
Margate’s all-weather lifeboat, the sturdy 12m Mersey class Leonard Kent, was dwarfed by the vessel to which she was called out on 2 December.
A Russian cargo ship was anchored, waiting for better weather to continue her...
Category: Articles
Naming Ceremonies In 1964
PRINCESS MARINA, Duchess of Kent, the Institution's President, will name the new Llandudno life-boat on 15th May and the new St. David's life-boat on igth May. At the time of going to press dates for other cere- monies have not been...
Category: Inaugurations
A Rowing Boat (2)
JULY 25TH. - MARGATE, KENT. A small rowing boat was drifting out with a boy in it, but before the life-boat arrived it was found by a motor boat. The boy was exhausted and, after he had been given water and chocolate from the life-boat, the...
A lifesaving foundation
The RNLI has pledged to provide every all-weather lifeboat crew with a 25-knot lifeboat by 2019. But the links in our supply chain are increasing and the availability of lifeboat building expertise is unpredictable. Our...
Category: Articles
North Foreland
North Foreland (Civil Service No. 11) isa46ft9in Watson,the first class to be built with a centre cabin and midships steering position. Following the lifeboat disasters of 1969 and 1970 she was fitted with an automatically inflating bag on... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
Aberdeen, Grampian 54ft Arun ON 1050: Mar 19 and May 24 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Relief Atlantic 21: Apr 8, May 26 and 31 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: May 26 and 31 Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire Relief Atlantic 75: Mar 13 and 24 Aldeburgh Suffolk...
Category: Services
Radio and Electronic Equipment In Life-Boats
With the exception of three short- range boats, all the Institution's life- boats, both in the active and in the reserve fleet, are equipped with M/F (medium frequency) radio-telephony.
The advantages of a life-boat...
Category: Articles
Our Inland Branches. Settle
DOES our reader know where Settle is, or the description of country that has to be traversed in making the journey to this part of England ? The question will pro- bably be answered in the negative, as it is a small market town of some 2000...
Category: Articles
Alicia
Barmouth, Merionethshire.—At2.4 on the afternoon of the 17th of September, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a fishing boat was making heavy weather off Mochras Point, seven miles north of Barmouth. The boat was kept under observation...