LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters
Letter of the quarter Memorial arboretum goes ahead Following on from the appeal in the letters page of the winter issue of the Lifeboat, I am pteased to announce that we have reached our target of £5,000. We have secured a plot at the...
Category: Correspondence
Shore Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1881
Jan. 6,1881.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution, and a copy of the vote inscribed on vellum, to Mr. HENRY SMITH, pilot, of Glou- cester, and 11. to his mate, for saving the owner, and two persons on board the yacht Foam, which was in...
Category: Articles
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A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
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Bude, Cornwall - At 12.15 P-m. on 30th May, 1966, the IRB was on exercise with a partly trained crew when she received a message that a bather was in difficulties half a mile north west of Bude.
She proceeded immediately in...
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APRIL 1ST. - PORT ASKAIG, HEBRIDES.
At 12.30 in the afternoon the Kilchoman coastguard reported distress signals between Islay and Colonsay. A strong southeast breeze was blowing, with a heavy swell.
The...
Launch of a New Life-Boat at Tynemouth
[Abridged from the Newcastle-on- Tyne Daily Papers.] THE new life-boat, recently presented by GEORGE JOHN FENWICK, Esq., to the port of Tynemouth, was launched there on Friday, the 13th November, with an unusual degree of ceremony. The boat...
Category: Inaugurations
A Steamer (46)
DECEMBER 19TH. - SOUTHEND - ON - SEA, ESSEX. A steamer was on fire, but her crew were rescued by a destroyer. - Rewards, £6 16s. 6d..
One at a Time the Twin Ford Diesel Engines
One at a time the twin Ford diesel engines. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Life-Boats
A NEW Life-boat Station has been formed at St. Abbs (Berwickshire), the Life-boat being of the Watson type, 38 ft. by 10 ft., with motor installation.
The Life-boats at the following Stations have recently been replaced by...
Category: Articles
The Change to Ultra High Frequency
EFFICIENT means of communication at sea between life-boats and aircraft have been of growing importance in recent years. Particularly vital is the link be- tween life-boats and helicopters, for the number of services in which life- boats and...
Category: Articles