LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ros Airgead
Valentia, Co. Kerry. At 8.15 on the morning of the 16th of December, 1960, the honorary secretary was informed by Valentia radio station that the trawler Ros Airgead was drifting five miles west of Bray Head with a defective fuel pipe, and...
Drawing to a Close
A total of £312, 228 has been raised so far from the 1990 promotion in conjunction with Volvo Concessionaires Ltd.
Eight Volvo 340 cars were offered as prizes in raffles throughout the various fund raising regions. The... - View image in PDF
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Notes of the Quarter
THE remarkable variety of the services which life-boat crews are called upon to perform today is clearly shown in the accounts received from the stations during the spring and early summer of this year and recorded in these...
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Fig 4: John Chadwick Rnli District Surveyor of Lifeboats South West Checks With Plumb Line the Distance of Centre of Air Bag End from Centreline of Cabin Top the Bag Like
Fig. 4: John Chadwick, RNLI district surveyor of lifeboats, south west, checks with plumb line the distance of centre of air bag end from centreline of cabin top.
The bag, like hovercraft skirts, is made of two layers of... - View image in PDF
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Elizabeth, of Blyth
As the Caister life-boat was returning to the shore, the brig Elizabeth, of BIyth, was seen on the south part of the Cross Sand with a signal of distress flying. Approach- ing her, they saw the ship's boat in the midst of the breakers on...
Crystal River
Aberdeen - At 5.55 a.m. on i8th February, 1967, a red flare was reported on the north side of Girdleness lighthouse.
There was a light north westerly breeze with a moderate sea. It was one hour before high water. The...
Electric Spark, of Boston U.S
There is also a large life-boat on this station, named the St. Patrick, and that boat, on the 26th September, put off to the assistance of the ship Electric Spark, of Boston, U.S., which was observed off the coast with signals of distress...
Wyre, of Fleetwood,
LYTHAM.—About 11 A.M. on the 11th April, the schooner Wyre, of Pleetwood, having had all her sails blown away, was forced ashore, by the violence of a N.W. gale, on the Horse Bank, at the entrance to the River Ribble. Heavy snow-squalls...
A New History of the Life-Boat Service
PEEHAPS the most charming thing in Patrick Howarth's most attractive book* is the way in which he has set his story. As he moves round the coast, apparently quite casually, from one carefully chosen life-boat station to another, he...
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Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN WILLIAM CROWLEY, of the Fenit life-boat Hilton Briggs.
A member of the crew since 1928, Coxwain Crowley, who is 58, was appointed bowman in 1936, since which time the life-boat has been launched 58 times and has... - View image in PDF
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