LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Sailor's Views on the R.N.L.I.
Cold, wet and darkness form a classic environment for fear, and if this trio is mixed with the other fierce ingredients of a sea driven to fury by a winter storm hurling its strength against an unyielding tidal stream, it would take a truly...
Category: Articles
Experimental Floating Stretchers
TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...
Category: Articles
Life-Saving on the Shannon continued from page 6
An earlier operation involving both launches was in I960 when an Alitalia DC-7C crashed seconds after take-oft" from Shannon Airport with 52 people aboard. It transpired that the aircraft failed to gain altitude after lifting off the...
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When the Swiss Cargo Ship Nyon (5,000) Tons Ran Aground Near St. Abbs in November, 1958, the Local Life-Boat Provided the Longest Service by one of the Institution's Life-Boats - 11 Days and Nights
When the Swiss cargo ship Nyon (5,000) tons ran aground near St. Abbs in November, 1958, the local life-boat provided the longest service by one of the Institution's life-boats - 11 days and nights.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Cliff Rescue Training for One of the 8500 Auxiliary Coastguards
Cliff Rescue Training For One of the 8500 Auxiliary Coastguards. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
J. P. Morgan Squash Champions Pose for the Camera
Jpmorgan Squash Champions Pose For The Camera. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Disasters at Southport and St. Anne's
SINCE the publication of the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL, terrible disas- ters have befallen the crews of the Life- boats at Southport and St. Anne's, on the coast of Lancashire, the full details of which are given in the...
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Life-Boat Services In 1908
Lives saved.
jEron B'ille, schooner, of Aber- ystwith—saved vessel and.... 3 Also landed 7.
Agenoria, schooner, of Chester— stood by vessel.
Albert, schooner, of Boston—...
Category: Services
People and Places
Crew members pick the cruisersPoole lifeboat crew drew the winning tickets for the RNLI's lifeboat lottery at Poole lifeboat station on 27 April 2001.
The 93rd draw raised £245,000 and top prize, a luxury Canaries...
Category: Articles