LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Light Type of Motor Life-Boat. Problems of the Three Capsizes
By LiEUT.-CoMMANDER P. E. VAUX, D.S.C., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boats.
THEEE motor life-boats have capsized in the space of fifteen months. In each capsize lives were lost.
The St. Ives life-boat...
Category: Articles
People and Places
Air Vice Marshal John Tetley, chairman of the RNLI's search and rescue committee, together with other members of the committee drew the winning tickets of the 73rd lifeboat lottery at Poole on 30 April 1996.
Supervising...
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Breeches Buoy for Man Overboard Practice
Breeches buoy for man overboard practice.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Service By the Torry Life-Saving Apparatus
Ox the afternoon of the 18th January the steam trawler Ben Screel, of Aber- deen, with a crew of ten on board, went ashore on the rocks opposite the Girdle- ness Lighthouse, near Aberdeen. A strong south-easterly wind was blowing with a...
Category: Services
An American Mustang
JANUARY 13TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 3.14 in the afternoon the naval authorities at Harwich reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane was down east of Clacton pier. A fresh east-north-east wind was blowing, with a moderate...
Northerly Gale: Short Steep Seas Break on the Bar at the Harbour Month Photograph By Courtesy of Dale Robinson
Northerly gale: Short, steep seas break on the bar at the harbour month. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Dale Robinson. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Selection of a New Life-Boat
THIS question was briefly touched on in the article in this Journal on " The Changes in the Institution's Life-boat Fleet since 1897," published in February last. Not very many years ago it was brought as a charge against the...
Category: Articles
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An Aeroplane (45)
APRIL 14TH. - CROMARTY. A British aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but it was learned later that the crew had reached the shore unaided. - Rewards, £5..
An Aeroplane (81)
AUGUST 11TH. - SELSEY, SUSSEX. A Hurricane aeroplane was reported to have crashed in the sea five miles west of Selsey Bill, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £6 3s. 6d.