LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Services In March, April and May
DURING March, 1948, life-boats went out on service 30 times and rescued 10 lives.
AGROUND IN FOG Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a...
Category: Services
Tamar on trial
The Tamar class is the RNLI’s newest and most sophisticated all-weather lifeboat, and its roll out continues. This year, Ireland’s first Tamar arrives at Kilmore Quay. Bembridge and Shoreham Harbour are also on the 2010 Tamar list and, in...
Category: Articles
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
ARDROSSAN, N.B.—The NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION has provided a new Life-boat for this place, the crew having lost confidence in the old boat, consequent on her having upset when in tow. The new one is 34 feet long, 8£ feet wide, and...
Category: Articles
Healthspan
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Category: Advertisement
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,...
Category: Articles
Dodo V
Girvan, Ayrshire. At one o'clock early on the morning of the 16th July, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a yacht had broken down because of a defect in her steering six miles north of Corsewall Point. A num- ber...
A Gift of Hair
A WOMAN in Essex has written: "Will you please accept the cuttings of my hair and sell it for your funds. I understand real hair is urgently needed." The Institution gratefully accepted the hair, and has sold it for fifteen...
Category: Donations
Duclair
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 11.3 on the morning of the llth of July, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress signals had been fired from a yacht between Worthing and Lancing. The life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...
Syrinx
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 8.43 on the evening of the 31st of July, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Greyfriars had reported that the motor cruiser Syrinx, of London, which had a crew of five, had broken down and was...
Morning Star
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 10.42 on the morning of the 18th of August, 1956, the coastguard rang up to say that the Worthing beach inspector had reported a small yacht apparently in trouble off Splash Point, Lancing.
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