LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Reviews
Famous Shipwrecks.
" Famous Shipwrecks." By Captain Frank H. Shaw. (Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, Ltd. 12s. &d. net.) THIS is a book which everyone interested in the Life-boat Service should read—an account of...
Category: Articles
A Yacht (1)
Two sailors were rescued from their capsized boat in May this year thanks to the eagle eyes of an 11-year-old boy from South Queensferry. Scott Findlater spotted an object floating in the water from his bedroom window and raised the alarm....
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1956 80,036 Notes of the Quarter SIR GODFREY BARIXG, who recently announced his...
Category: Articles
A Stern Test
A STERN TEST Inshore lifeboats are equipped with powerful engines to reach casualties quickly, but many rescues call for some strong handiwork too. Rory Stamp reports The skipper knew it wouldn’t be easy to get his yacht Sub Woofer back into...
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At the Sharp End
• Wo matter how experienced and well prepared you are every small-boat sailor knows that problems can still arise seemingly out of the blue. This was some consolation to the RNLI's own Chief of Operations during the Round the Island Race...
Category: Services
Inaugural Ceremony at Llandudno
THE new motor life-boat at Llandudno which has replaced a pulling and sailing life-boat, was formally inaugurated on 28th September. She is a Welsh gift, having been built out of legacies received from the late Dr. Thomas Richards, of...
Category: Inaugurations
Centenary of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
Blyth, Northumberland.
THE Blyth Life-boat Station was established in 1826, when the Newcastle Branch Association applied to the Institution for a Life-boat, and the Station was taken over by the Institution in 1866. It has...
Category: Articles
Review
' Seamen of the Downs." By George Bethel Bayley. (Blackwood.
12s. Qd. net.) In this excellent book Mr. Bayley has continued the heroic story of the Lifeboatmen whose duty lies about the I dreaded Goodwin Sands,...
Category: Articles
Marie May (1)
Hythe and Dungeness (Kent).
At 6.30 in the evening of llth November, with a 70-mile an hour gale blowing from the S.W., a very heavy sea running, and poor visibility on account of heavy rain, the Coxswain at Hythe received...
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 3.—The 45-Feet 6-Inches Watson (Cabin) Type
THE 45-feet 6-inches Watson (Cabin) Motor Life-boat was the first type of Motor Life-boat in the Institution's fleet to be provided with a cabin, and the first of the type was built in 1923.
This Life-boat is a...
Category: Articles