LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Meeting
Important Notice.
Owing to the continued extraordinarily high cost of all printing, and the need for economy in view of the large capital expenditure with which the Institution is at present faced, THE LIFE-BOAT will not...
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Returning from Service
The Whitby motor life-boat coming home in a strong gale, after standing by the Italian steamer Comitas for over seven hours, on 28th October, 1933. (See page 209.). - View image in PDF
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Two Long Distance Services
Stromness, Orkneys; Wick, Caithness-shire.
ON the night of June 13th the Motor | Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to...
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A Fishing Boat
Redcar, Yorkshire - At about 8.50 a.m. on nth March, 1966, the coxswain informed the honorary secretary that he had seen a small fishing boat in difficulties half a mile off Redcar. At 8.50 the IRB launched in a strong north westerly breeze...
Past and Present
25 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, June 1965 issue SIX NEW STEEL LIFEBOATS After intensive trials extending over nearly a year the Institution has decided, in principle, to build six 44- foot steel life-boats. They will be to the...
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The War Department Vessels Brigadier and Grey Lady
AUGUST 13TH. - PLYMOUTH, DEVON.
At 12.5 in the morning the King’s harbour master reported that men and a boat were marooned on the Rennie Rocks between the breakwater and the Mew Stone. They had been trying to salve a small...
A Motor Launch and a Cabin Cruiser
ESCORT AND TOW FOR TWO BOATS Llandudno, Caernarvonshire. At nine o'clock on Monday the 5th of August, 1963, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a motor launch with two people on board which had put out to tow in a cabin...
The Importance of the System of Electrical Communication Established on the Coast for Life-Saving Purposes
IN 1889 Mr. EGBERT BAYLY, of Torr Grove, Ply month, a member of the Local Committee of the Port of Plymouth Branch of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTI- TUTION, published, with the sanction of the Plymouth Chamber of Commerce, of which he...
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Wells: on Board Ernest Tom Nethercoat Coxswain David Cox Explains to the President the Use and Working of a Drogue
Wells: On board Ernest Tom Nethercoat Coxswain David Cox explains to the president the use and working of a drogue.. - View image in PDF
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