LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Der Zehnte Juni
STONEHAVEN.—The barge Der Zehnte Juni, of South Shields, bound from Sunderland for Aberdeen, with a cargo of coal, experienced a good deal of stormy weather on her voyage, and on the 15th March, she was labouring heavily in the teeth of a...
Ramsgate: After Naming Ralph and Joy Swann Hrh the Duchess of Kent and Commander Swann (l) Embarked for a Run Out to Sea In the 44' Wa\Eney Class Lifeboat Ph
Ramsgate: After naming Ralph and Joy Swann, HRH The Duchess of Kent and Commander Swann (/.) embarked for a run out to sea in the 44' Wa eney class lifeboat.
photographs by courtesy of (left) A. E. Turner and (below) J.... - View image in PDF
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(Below) Class Reinforced Plastic
(Below) Class reinforced plastic boats are laid up inside a mould so that a prescribed hull shape can be turned out time and again.
Each hull is laid up as a single piece of continuous material from stem to stern, with no... - View image in PDF
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The Merchant Shipping Act, 1875
UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS, 38 & 39 VICTORIA, CAP. 88.) THE Act -which was passed at the end of last Session for the better security of ships and sailors, although only to con- tinue in force for one year, is of consider- able importance, as...
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November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. At nine o’clock on the night of the 5th of July, 1946, the Margate coastguard asked a local boatman to go to the help of the fishing boat Barbie, which appeared to be drifting seawards. A light south-west...
Category: Services
Yacht Auriga and Haliday
AT 7.15 on the evening of 22nd November, a wireless message was received at Walton-on-the-Naze, Essex, from the Sunk Lightship, reporting that the Lightship could see flares four to five miles to the north-west. A whole gale was blowing from...
A New Wing Has Recently Been Added to the Institution's Depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., to Provide Extra Repair and Maintenance Facilities for Among Equipment Items, IRBs of the Growing Fleet
A new wing has recently been added to the Institution's depot at Boreham Wood, Herts., to provide extra repair and maintenance facilities for, among equipment items, IRBs of the growing fleet. This night scene shows IRBs in store and one... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
End of the Road: Hyde Park Corner Saturday May 27
End of the road: Hyde Park Corner, Saturday May 27.. - View image in PDF
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Book Reviews
• A new edition of First Aid for Lifeboat Crews has been compiled by the RNLI Medical and Survival Committee and will be issued this summer by authority of the Committee of Management to all lifeboat stations.
This book...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Service and the Shipping Companies
IN the course of his speech from the chair at the Annual General Meeting,* Lord Burnham made an urgent appeal to the great shipping firms to give their generous support to the Life-boat Service, and pointed out that, at present, many of them...
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