LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Search for Aircraft
IN the last quarter of 1957 there were a number of long and exacting searches by life-boats after aircraft had crashed. Unfortunately, as happens so often when aircraft come down in the sea, it was impossible to rescue any survivors. Details...
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An Aeroplane
25th May. An aeroplane had been reported as fallen into the sea, but a careful search revealed nothing.—Rewards, £2 16s.
The Life-Boat Institution and the City of London
A PUBLIC meeting in furtherance of the objects of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held on Wednesday afternoon, the 13th June last, in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House, by the special invitation of the Eight Hon. the LORD...
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United States Life-Saving Service
Mr. S0MNEE I. KIMBALL, the able and in- defatigable General Superintendent of the United States Government Life-Saving Service, has sent us his very interesting Annual Report, jast issued, furnishing particulars of the operations of the...
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(Right) As An Honorary Member of Beaumaris Lifeboat Crew Sir Jimmy Savill Obe
(Right) As an honorary member of Beaumaris lifeboat crew Sir Jimmy Savill QBE has always been a friend to the RNLI and when Storm Force was first introduced he was quick to support the junior club by writing a message in an early issue of... - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
JOHNSHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE.—The wind and sea having increased while some fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon were at sea on the 31st Jan., 1895, it was dangerous for them to attempt to return to their harbour. They were therefore warned off,...
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Hawker Siddeley Nimrod—The World's First Pure Jet Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft—Of No. 120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, Morayshire (Left), the Well-Tried Avro Shackleton Used for Search and R
Hawker Siddeley Nimrod—the world's first pure jet maritime reconnaissance aircraft—of No. 120 Squadron, R.A.F. Kinloss, Morayshire (left), the well-tried Avro Shackleton used for search and rescue (right), R.A.F. rescue/target towing... - View image in PDF
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Phryne
Aldeburgh, Suffolk.—A message was received from the coastguard at 8 A.M. on the 24th September, 1939, that a steamer was sinking through enemy action, three or four miles E. by N. from the look-out. A N.W.
breeze was...
The Selsey Life-Boat on the Thames
THE new Life-boat for Selsey—of the Watson Cabin type—which during last winter was on temporary service at Cromer, made a trip up the Thames in July, after undergoing overhaul at the Storeyard, before she went to her station. She was manned...
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Bob Silverson (R) Senior Boatbuilder Shows Rother Building at William Osbornes Littlehampton to Richard Belchamber District Surveyor of Lifeboats (South East) Note Sl
Bob Silverson (r.), senior boatbuilder, shows Rother building at William Osbornes, Littlehampton, to Richard Belchamber, district surveyor of lifeboats (South East). Note slender building batten (arrowed) running the length of the boat... - View image in PDF
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