LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat on this station has been replaced by a new 10-oared Life-boat, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, constructed according to the latest designs. The cost of the new Life-boat, which is named the Tom and Ida,...
Category: Articles
Spirit
spIRIt Storyteller, boatman and hero Anglesey has seen more than its fair share of difficult rescues. Carol Waterkeyn hears how Margaret O’Leary’s grandfather played a pivotal role This year marks the 80th anniversary of an outstanding...
Category: Articles
The S.S. Pyrope
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
Nature of Services By Life-Boats
CLASS Fishing boats - all types Motor vessels, steamers, barges, motor boats, etc.
Sailing yachts, sailing dinghies, sailing boats, motor cruisers and motor yachts Aircraft f Small boats, canoes, rubber dinghies,...
Category: Services
Blackfriars
Pollution disaster prevented Thanks on Vellum awarded to St. Davids coxswain Another pollution incident on the Welsh coast was averted when the St Davids lifeboat pulled a stranded oil tanker off a beach in a Gale Force 9.SIn a long and...
(Left) Barnett:
(left) Barnett: length overall 52ft; beam 14ft; draught 4ft 6in; displacement 29 tons; maximum speed, 9 knots; range a! full speed, 350 nautical miles. The Barnett, introduced in 1950, has a crew of seven; she launches down a slipway or lies... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yves Marie Amil
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In the early hours of the morning Coxswain Malcolm Gray's pager beeped loudly. As he sat up in ^ bed he heard the clock strike four. Momentarily he wondered what on earth was going...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter,) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
Category: Advertisement
Fig 3: (Right) Building Starts of the First 47Ft Steel Fast Slipway Lifeboat Prototype the Gunwale Is Laid Down on a Deck Jig and the Five Watertight Bulkheads and Transom Erected Photographs By Cour
Fig 3: (right) Building starts of the first 47ft steel fast slipway lifeboat prototype. - View image in PDF
The gunwale is laid down on a deck jig and the five watertight bulkheads and transom erected.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels In 1935, and Numbers of the Fleets
Rescues from British Vessels in 1935, and Numbers of the Fleets.
DURING 1935 foreign life-boats went to the help of 22 British vessels. One of these services was by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 1 by Iceland, 3 by France, 3 by...
Category: Services