LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Frederick Warne
THE BOOK OF SEA RESCUE Laurence F Gilding An authoritative account of all the organisations formed to help those in danger of drowning, with exciting ac- counts of some famous rescues. 10s 6d OBSERVER'S BOOK OF SHIPS Frank E Dodman A...
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Two Boats, Two Rowing Boats, a Motor Boat, a 14-foot Boat
TWO YOUTHS SAVED—FOUR BOATS ESCORTED Tynemouth, Northumberland. At 11.20 on the morning of Sunday, the 29th September, 1963, the coxswain told the honorary secretary that a small boat was in trouble off the river Tyne. This was confirmed by...
The Competitive Trials of Life-Boats
THE decision of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to carry out exhaustive trials -with different types of Life-boats is an additional proof to those already given in various "ways that the governing body are determined not to sit...
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"Capstan Bars."
Walk Around Chanty BY CAPTAIN Q. C. A. CKAUFURD, R.N., Honorary Secretary of the Dungeness Life-boat Station.
" We were much relieved, when dawn broke, to see our boat beating home in the offing. As there had been no...
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The Effect of Oil on Breaking Waves and Coast Surf
THE expression " Pouring oil on troubled waters" "has been from some remote period metaphorically used to signify the allayment of anger and strife by kind and gentle words. Like all other metaphors, this one was no doubt...
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Awards to Honorary Workers
Thanks of the Institution on Vellum The Thanks of the Institution Inscribed on Vellum has been awarded to the following honorary secretaries of life-boat stations on their retirement.
REV. W. CARROLL, of...
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Phaedra
30-mile tow to safety for yacht adrift among rigs The rescue of two people from a yacht kept Cromer's Tyne class lifeboat at sea for 12 hours in winds of up to Force 9 on 28 September 1988. More than nine hours were spent towing the...
High Seas
More views of RNLI lifeboat stations from the air.
Scarborough -- North Division The boathouse for Scarborough's Mersey and D class is right on the town's seafront, tucked into the corner of the beach at South Bay...
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Special delivery
'HE CHANGED MY LIFE'
I noticed the sad passing of former Newhaven Coxswain/Mechanic Len Patten (pictured) in the latest magazine and I would like it if this message could be passed on to his family and even used to...
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The Life-Boat Station
THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 286 Life-boat Stations...
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