LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Failsafe Part 1- Capsizing and Righting By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
ON APRIL 10, 1983, Salcombe's 47ft Watson lifeboat The Baltic Exchange, searching for missing divers at the southern end of Start Bay, was hit by mountainous seas in a force 11 storm.
The first of two tremendous seas, a...
Category: Articles
The Lily
Humber, Yorkshire.—Just before noon on the 31st May a small fishing boat, The Lily, of Grimsby, drifted ashore inside Spurn Point. She was in no immediate danger. A moderate N.N.W.
breeze was blowing, with a slight...
Lowestoft Motor Life-Boat and the Airship R33
ON the morning of 16th April the airship JR33 broke away from her moorings at the aerodrome, at Pulham, in Norfolk, and was carried out to sea by a strong W.S.W. gale. She was seen to cross the coast at 10.15 A.M., obviously in diffi-...
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The Gear a Life-Boat Carries
Assistant Chief Inspector of Life-boats A MODERN life-boat may cost as much as £36,500. The great bulk of the cost is, of course, that of the hull and machinery, but a modern life-boat also carries a variety of stores and equip- ment....
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Dee Jay
Dungeness, Kent. At 8 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, a speed boat was reported in distress off Dungeness Point with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched on the flooding tide at 8.53 in a moderate...
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
A FFINIT V WITH AFFINITY WITH DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.
Not only will...
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Plymouth: the Duke and Duchess of Kent Accompanied By the City's Lord Mayor Councillor Ivor Thomas Are Welcomed By Commander F R H Swann Cbe Rnvr The
Plymouth: The Duke and Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the city's Lord Mayor, Councillor Ivor Thomas, are welcomed by Commander F. R. H. Swann, CBE RNVR, then chairman of the Institution . . .. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Royal Fleet Auxiliary C. 617 (1)
Peterhead, and Fraserburgh, Aberdeen- shire.—Shortly after 8 o'clock in the morning of the llth of December, 1948, the Royal Fleet Auxiliary C. 617, bound with stores from Invergordon to Rosyth, wirelessed to Wick Radio that she was...
The Naming of the 52Ft Arun Relief Lifeboat Sir Max Aitken
THE BACK GARDEN of the harbourside house of Sir Max Aitken, whose name she now bears, was the unique setting for the naming ceremony of the RNLI's newest 52ft Arun class lifeboat at West Cowes, Isle of Wight, on Saturday May 2. The...
Category: Inaugurations
Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st December to 29th February: Launches 201, lives saved 67 DECEMBER No. 3 Life-boat Area Bridlington, Yorkshire - At 8.49 p.m.
on 16th December, 1967, the coastguard informed...
Category: Services