LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Quick response ON SEPTEMBER 18, 1983, Alexander Strutt, motor mechanic of Kirkwall's 70ft Clyde lifeboat, saw a single-handed dinghy capsize. Although her helmsman could right his boat, he could not keep her upright; a southerly near...
Hma: Robert Haworth MRCS Lrcp Da Eng of Barmouth
One of the key people at every lifeboat station is the honorary medical adviser, a local general practitioner who takes into his care the routine medical oversight of boat and crew and who, while not necessarily required by his appointment...
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Portsmouth's Atlantic 21 City of Portsmouth
Portsmouth's Atlantic 21 City of Portsmouth pictured earlier on exercise. During the service for which the Thanks on Vellum was awarded she was operating in gale force winds and a stong tide which kicked up seas so steep that she could... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The End of Another Successful Service for Coxswain Derek Scott (Right) and Two of His Crew Garry Ridd and Jack Whitford Photographs By Courtesy of 'south Wale
the end of another successful service for Coxswain Derek Scott (right) and two of his crew, Garry Ridd and Jack Whitford. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of 'South Wales Evening Post'. - View image in PDF
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Sculpture from Scrap Has Been a Highly Successful Idea for John Perse Nee a Committee Member of Heist on Branch and Also a Shoreline Member Mr Persence A
Sculpture from scrap has been a highly successful idea for John Perse nee, a committee member of Heist on branch and also a Shoreline member. Mr Persence, a welder by trade, creates, in his spare time, model steam engines, boats and figures... - View image in PDF
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Four Herring Boats
On the 25th June the services of the Thomas Bewick were again called into requisition. Four of the herring boats belonging to the port were waiting for the tide to rise sufficiently for them to get into harbour, but in the prevailing...
New Ways of Raising Money
A jumble sale with unusual features was organised by Lady Templetown for the Kirkcudbright branch. The older clothes given for the sale were sold in the usual manner, but a number of Lady Templetown's young friends acted as models to...
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Your shout
Following your feature on lifejacket development (Spring 2012), here's what happened to me in 1971 or so. I was in the Blessington Sailing Club in Co Wicklow. Despite the Finn class boats experiencing such conditions that their event was...
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Notes of the Quarter
ON MARCH 4, 1984, the RNLI will celebrate the 160th anniversary of its foundation in 1824. The event in itself is perhaps of minor importance—just another milestone—but what it represents is of far greater significance: the unbroken record...
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Plan of the Work
THE deep interest that has recently been awakened throughout the country on the subject of the preservation of life from ship- wreck, by the publication of the Report of the Life-Boat Committee, appointed to award the premium offered by the...
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