LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Building a Rother Class Lifeboat: Part X—Engines and Superstructure Fitted: Steering System
A CRANE MOVED into the boatshed at William Osbornes one day last autumn to lift first the twin engines and then the superstructure aboard the 37ft 6in Rother class lifeboat which will be RNLB Shoreline.
The engines are twin...
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Books
Books . . .
• Every now and again a book is added to the lifeboat library which can be recognised at once as a 'classic'. Such is A Source Book of Lifeboats by Ray Kipling (Ward Lock, £3.50). Few people can...
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Fastnet Book, Cape Clear
As the prevention of shipwreck is of equal importance with the saving of life after the wreck has taken place, it becomes the duty of the Life-Boat Journal, from time to time, to give notice to the mariner of any newly- discovered or...
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St. Pierre
Storm tow HARTLAND POINT Coastguard informed lifeboat 70-001, Charles H. Barrett (Civil Service No. 35), at 0210 on February 6 that a trawler was sinking 281°T 26 miles from the Point. The lifeboat was under way by 0220 and 12 minutes...
AEGEAN SUPPORT
The narrow channels between Turkey and Greece have been busy over the past year, as desperate people attempt to cross the Aegean into Europe. More than 700 are believed to have drowned. How can the RNLI help?
Just 4 miles...
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Annual Awards 1979
ANNUAL AWARDS 1979 The Maud Smith Award for the most outstanding act of lifesaving by a lifeboatman during 1979 has been made to Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan for the rescue of the crew of four of the Panamanian cargo vessel Revi in a...
Category: Awards
Hilda II
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—At 9.10 on the morning of the 24th of June, 1951, the coxswain reported that the local hshing coble Hilda II was off Red Cliff and making for Scarborough in bad weather. It would have been dangerous for her to enter...
Trial of the "Percy" Life-Boat
A trial of the life-boat designed by Mr. PEAKE, one of the Northumberland Life- Boat Committee, and built under his superin- tendence, by order of the Lords Commis- sioners of the Admiralty, in Her Majesty's Dockyard at Woolwich, for the...
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Your Letters
More Lifeboats at Dunkirk In your Autumn issue lifeboat enthusiast Jeff Morris states that 19 lifeboats from the RNLI attended the evacuation of Dunkirk during 1940. He is right to say that 19 lifeboats went to Dunkirk but wrong in thus...
Category: Correspondence
August
AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.
AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...
Category: Services