LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

Launches 22. Lives rescued 7.

NOVEMBER 6TH. - ARKLOW, CO. WICKLOW.

During the afternoon the motor fishing boat Dan O’Connell, of Arklow, with a crew of five, ran out of fuel as she was coming in, and...

Sailing loan interest rates reduced for Shoreline members Now, as a Shoreline member, you're in a privileged position when it conies to financing your sailing.

Shoreline Sailing Loans are available to members from...

DURING 1938 foreign life-boats went out to the help of 53 British vessels; forty-five of these services were by the United States, three by Norway, two by Holland, and one each by France, Sweden and...

The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy (maximum 28 Ibs., minimum 25 Ibs.) to support a m«n heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support auother...

St Abbs crew trusted each other with their lives in an outstandingly gallant rescue

‘This was something you can’t train for and something we’d never seen before. The decisions we made had to be...

Beeching's medal At the Great Exhibition of 1851, one James Beeching was awarded the prize bronze medal for a self righting lifeboat.

It is thought this boat was the best if not the first self righting lifeboat to be...

by Dave Trotter The launch of Padstow's Oakley class lifeboat featured in many RNLI publications and posters, but this is the scene brought up to date as 47-002, relief Tyne class Sam and Joan Woods, is launched during the summer of J988... - View image in PDF

Thursday, Dec. 6, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.' Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.

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