LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Children cut off by tide SWoth Scotland South Division Two children aged 12 and 5 years who had been cut off by the tide on a sandbank off Mawbray were rescued on 7 July 1991 by the prompt response of the Silloth lifeboat and John Boyle, a...
A Cabin Cruiser
Barry Dock, Glamorganshire - At 4.55 p.m. on 15th December, 1968, news was received that a boat was in difficulties off Sully island. The lifeboat Arthur and Blanche Harris on evaluation trials at the station slipped her moorings at 5.15 in...
Readers Union (Maritime Book Society)
experiences of the most famous lone sailors of the Atlantic To: Maritime Book Society, PO Box 6, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ12 2DW I would like to join the Maritime Book Society and claim Challenge for only £1.00 post free (Allow up to 21...
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Variations of the Compass
The Revue Maritime el Coloniale recently published a letter on the deviations to which the needle is liable in consequence of the substitution of iron for wood in ships.
One of the latest contrivances for diminishing this...
Category: Articles
RNLI In Action
RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Month of mudness Helmsman ‘Tommo’Thompson and crew from Exmouth, Devon, rescued two 14-year-olds...
Category: Articles
Radio Telephony In Life-Boats
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 138 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 29 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 - 65,396 to November 30th, 1937 Radio Telephony in Life-boats.
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Category: Articles
Exercising the Life-Boat
As soon as possible after the arrival of a new Life-boat at her Station an exer- cise is held, preferably in rough weather, in order not only to test her sea-going qualities, but also as a means of giving the crew some experience of the boat...
Category: Articles
The Hull Is Turned Upright for the First Time Before Being Transported to Osborne's of Littlehampton for Fitting Out
The Hull Is Turned Upright For The First Time Before Being Transported To Osborne's of Littlehampton For Fitting Out. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Weather Forecasts
THE forecasting of storms and weather- changes is generally supposed to be wrapped in mystery, md the rules which have from time to time been laid down for the assistance of the would-be fore- caster, to say the least, only experimental,...
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Sea Serpent
About 5 A.M., on the 24th November, the barque Sea Serpent, of South Shields, was observed ashore op- posite the Wellington Pier, the wind blow- ing a gale from the E. at the time. The Yarmouth small surf life-boat was im- mediately launched...