LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
(Right) Burton-On-Trent Branch President and a Committee Member Plan to Visit All English Mainland Lifeboat Stations on Their Bmw Motorcycles They Will Start from the Rnli Stand at the Royal
(Right) Burton-on-Trent branch president and a committee member plan to visit all English mainland lifeboat stations on their BMW motorcycles. They will start from the RNLI stand at the Royal Show being held at the National Agricultural... - View image in PDF
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Gundine (1)
LIFE-BOATS SMOTHERED IN OIL Stromnest, and Longbope, Orkneys.— At 7.34 in the morning of the 24th of August, 1947, the Kirkwall coastguard telephoned to the Stromness life-boat station that the Norwegian tanker Gundine, of Arendal, was...
The S.S. Valga
Whitby, Yorkshire. At 6.20 on the morning of the 3rd of September, 1959, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the s.s. Valga of Lenin- grad had asked for the life-boat to take a doctor out to attend to a seaman who had fallen down...
Imagine the Sealed Orange Superstructure As a Permanently Inflated Air Bag'
Imagine the sealed orange superstructure as a permanently inflated air bag' and it is easier to imagine the upward lorce it is generating as this Tyne class hleooai rolls upright. This view also shows how the height of the upperworks... - View image in PDF
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When the London Steamer Barnhill Was Attacked from the Air Off Beachy Head and Set on Fire on March 20 1940 the Eastbourne Lifeboat Went to Her Help and Put Two
When the London steamer Barnhill was attacked from the air off Beachy Head and set on fire on March 20, 1940, the Eastbourne lifeboat went to her help and put two of her crew aboard to rescue the si'earner''s master who had been... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. River Humber
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire, and Barmouth, Merionethshire.—The Abersoch coastguards reported to the Pwllheli lifeboat station at 12.10 in the morning of the 4th October, 1938, that a vessel was dragging her anchors in St. Tudwalls Roads. A...
Furthest North: Aith and Lerwick Lifeboat Stations Shetland By Joan Davies
THULE? The most remote land sighted by the Romans? Was it Shetland? Perhaps. Certainly Shetland is the most northerly of the British Isles and Aith and Lerwick, both lying above latitude 60 degrees north, are the most northerly of the...
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The Merchant Vessel Craigantlet
Stranded BELFAST COASTGUARD reported to the honorary secretary of Portpatrick lifeboat station at 0355 on Friday February 26, 1982, that Craigantlet, a merchant vessel on passage from Belfast to Liverpool, laden, had gone ashore off...
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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(Below) Jimmy Savile at the Helm of the Atlantic 21 on Show With a 'Crew' of Scouts
. . . and (below) Jimmy Savile at the helm of the Atlantic 21 on show with a 'crew' of Scouts.. - View image in PDF
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