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The Padstow Screw Steam Life-Boat "James Stevens No 4" Going to the Aid of a Vessel In Distress
The Padstow Screw Steam Life-Boat "James Stevens No 4" Going To The Aid of A Vessel In Distress. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Treasure and Fair Beagle
Six saved from two separate vessels in hurricane-force conditionsThe rescue of four fishermen and two yachtsmen, in separate incidents and in hurricane force winds, has earned Second Coxswain Rodney Burge of Amble lifeboat station the Thanks...
Harbours of Refuge
The important question of providing harbours of refuge on exposed parts of the coast, where natural harbours are not to be found, to which merchant vessels and fishing-boats could ran for safety in gales of wind, has once more cropped up,...
Category: Articles
Coxswain Alan Thomas
Coxswain Alan Thomas of Tenby. Alan Thomas joined the Tenby lifeboat crew in 1966, was assistant motor mechanic from 1972 to 1974 and served as second coxswain from 1974 to 1982 when he became coxswain. He was awarded the thanks of the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sothebys Came to Dovercourt Last February Thanks to Harwich
Sothebys came to Dovercourt last February, thanks to Harwich and Dovercourt branch which organised this valuation session at the Cliff Hotel.
A George Jones plate was estimated at between £300 and £400: a Charles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Seven Men Rescued from Sinking Lightvessel
AT 9.25 on the night of the 21st of September, 1953, the Tenby coast- guard learnt that the pumps in the St.
Gowan lightvessel had stopped work- ing and that she was in danger of sinking. There were seven men on board the...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
THE disaster at Seaham Harbour, in which 5 members of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, shocked and distressed the nation.
The life-boat capsized at...
Category: Articles
Fail Safe Part Ii: Upright Again - and Then What? By James Paffett Rcnc Ceng Frina Honfni Frsa Chairman of the Technical Consultative Committee
IN THE FIRST PART of this article, published in the spring issue of THE LIFEBOAT, we recalled the righting after capsize on service of four of the Institution's lifeboats and looked at the designer's work which had made possible the...
Category: Articles
Commodore The Right Hon. The Earl Howe, P.C., C.B.E., V.R.D., R.N.V.R.
Earl Howe, who died on 26th July, 1964, at the age of 80, was actively associated with the Royal National Life-boat Institution for 45 years. He first joined the Committee of Management in 1919 and was elected a Vice-President in...
Category: Obituaries
Lifeboat Matthew Simpson Going to the Help of Steam Drifter Harmony
Lifeboat Matthew Simpson going to the help of steam drifter Harmony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs