LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Tests of the Reliability of Life-Belts
Rigorous tests have been carried out on the life-belts issued by the Institution to members of life-boat crews following some rather disturbing reports issued by the Danish Ministry of Commerce and Shipping on the effects of oil on kapok...
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Members of the Thurso Lifeboat Crew
Members of the Thurso lifeboat crew are presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother after the naming ceremony of the station's new Arun class lifeboat. (Photo Aberdeen Press and Journal). - View image in PDF
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The Netherlands-Registered Yacht Rose Bank
Determination in appalling conditions saves four 1-iftbtial.
Coxswain/Mechanic Ian Firman was awarded the RNLI's Bronze medal, and his six-man crew received medal service certificates, following a hazardous rescue of...
The New 47-Feet Life-Boat
A NEW 47-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of her kind, completed her trials during the summer of 1955. She has now been sent to her station at Thurso, Caithness-shire.
The new life-boat is a development of the 46-feet...
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Life-Boat Services. The Life-Boat Illustration
THE accompanying tabular statement clearly shows the important character of the services rendered by the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
It will be seen that during the year (1862) which has just closed,...
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A Gallant Rescue In the Moray Firth
ON the morning of 27th January, 1937, the Russian steamer Kingissepp, of Leningrad, was anchored about a mile off the harbour of Nairn on the Moray Firth. An easterly gale was blowing, with a rough sea. A boat was seen to put off from the...
Category: Services
The Sailing Dinghies Victory and Wanton
Hastings, Sussex. At 3.29 on the afternoon of the 20th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the mechanic that an angling boat Petchick II had been sent to the aid of a small dinghy which was in distress three quarters of a mile...
The Admiralty Trawlers Pyrope and Tamarisk
AUGUST 12TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 11 A.M. the life-boat crew were at the Town Hall, where a picture of the evacuation of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk was being presented to them, when an an-raid alarm was sounded.
The crew made...
The Admiralty Motor Vessel No. 649
SEPTEMBER 17TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. Shortly after one in the afternoon information was received that a vessel was in difficulties, and later it was learned that she was showing a distress signal. The weather was fine and the sea smooth....
The' Two—And Only—Members of the Georgian Branch Cliff Jardine Landlord of the George Hotel Beaconsfield and His Friend Sandy Bailey Have Raised 11,500 for the Lifeb
The' two—and only—members of the Georgian branch, Cliff Jardine, landlord of the George Hotel, Beaconsfield, and his friend Sandy Bailey have raised il,500 for the lifeboat service in two years with dinner-boxing and pro-am golf... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs