LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lamorna
Swanage, Dorset, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 11.25 in the morning of the 4th of November, 1951, the Niton Radio Station reported a wire- less message from a steamer that a schooner was in distress sixteen and a half miles...
University Marine Ltd
Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
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University Marine Ltd (Zodiac)
Zodiac, the best inflatable in the world.
Zodiac is Number One. Built by the oldest and best known inflatable manufacturers in the world, Zodiac inflatables confirm their pedigree, as soon as the going gets...
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Another Crew Back to Oars Walton and Frinton Crew and Launchers Row Three Tons of Boarding Boat: Coxswain Frank Bloom (On Tiller) Derek Halls Jim Berry Bryan Wa
Another crew back to oars . . . Walton and Frinton crew and launchers row three tons of boarding boat: Coxswain Frank Bloom (on tiller), Derek Halls, Jim Berry, Bryan Ward, Steve Betson, Jack Barrett and Bobby Kemp.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Helmsman Elisabeth Hostvedt (Front), An Atlantic College Student from Norway, Was the First Female RNLI Crew Member.
Helmsman Elisabeth Hostvedt (front), an Atlantic College student from Norway, was the first female RNLI crew member. She is pictured with fellow students about to launch at the Atlantic College slipway in the 1960s. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Gold medal AT 0058 ON MONDAY, December 6, 1976, the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station was informed by the Coastguard that the motor vessel Lyrma had requested immediate assistance six miles east of Start...
Category: Services
Never on Holiday
RNLI lifeguards save lives on beaches around the UK and sometimes ‘Down Under’, but their skills can be called into practice in far more unusual locations.Kirstin Prisk was 7 hours into a fl ight from London to New York when he noticed...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1886
YEAR after year the Board of Trade draws public attention to the shipping catas- trophes occurring on our rock-bound shores, as though to remind us that a large proportion of the luxuries and comforts we daily enjoy are obtained at the cost...
Category: Articles
A Motor Boat and Faith
Cullercoats, Northumberland. At 11.15 a.m. on 29th August, 1965, St Mary's lighthouse keeper told the coxswain that a small boat was in difficulties off the lighthouse. The life-boat Sir James Knott was launched at 11.20 in a westnorth-...
Air Bag Installation
BUILT TO SPECIFICATIONS probably not exceeded by any ship afloat; subjected to exhaustive commissioning trials; maintained with jealous care by coxswain, mechanic and crew; watched over by divisional inspector, district surveyor and engineer...
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