LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Into the Next Century
The RNLI continues to develop lifesaving equipment of all kinds, to meet new demands as new techniques and materials become available. Tust as with the Severn and Trent class lifeboats often no commercial product suits the exacting needs of...
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Lifeboat Services (from page 281)
Lifeboat Services (from page 281) The divers were landed at Horton at 1441 and the ILB was rehoused and ready for service by 1516.
For this service the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum were accorded to Helmsman...
Category: Services
Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, launched the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association at the International Boat Show at Earls Court, London,
Sir Alec Rose, the round-the-world sailor, launched the Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association at the International Boat Show at Earls Court, London, on 2nd January, 1969. As a founder member Sir Alec is entitled to fly the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Gellie
aunhtinastorm As high winds and torrential rain caused chaos across Britain on 7 July 2004, two people on their yacht faced storm force conditions 35 miles south of The Lizard, CornwallLaunching The Lizard Tyne class lifeboat was tricky in...
St. Brendan
Kilmore, Co. Wexford.—At 3.20 in the afternoon of the 21st of July, 1949, a Bannow fisherman telephoned that a boat was in difficulties about nine miles west of Kilmore Quay. One of the life-boat's ' carriage-tracks was dis- mantled...
The Fishing Trawler Fairway
Trawler broken down A FISHING TRAWLER, Fairway, broken down and drifting towards shore about eight miles south of Lyme Regis was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0032 on Saturday December 2, 1978. The...
Trapped in the Thames
When a man’s oldest friend fell into the River Thames moments after his beloved dog ran away, could anyone rescue his two best pals?
It was a bitterly cold evening on 15 January when...
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Four Months of Gales. 174 Launches; 194 Lives Rescued.
THE past winter has been remarkable for a succession of terrible westerly gales. In their frequency and intensity they have been unequalled during the present century. October opened with gales on eight successive days, from the 1st to the...
Category: Services
Book Corner
9 In Captain George Manby, the inventor of the line-throwing mortar, Kenneth VValthew has found an excellent subject for a lively and colourful biography (From Rock and Tempest, Geoffrey Bles, £1.90/38s.). Manby was one of those...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 3rd December, 1863. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.K.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward...
Category: Committee