LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Tractors for the Antarctic
IN 1920 the Institution first experi- mented with a motor caterpillar tractor to be used in place of horses for launch- ing Life-boats on flat sandy beaches.
There are now eleven on the coast.
The type...
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Five Lives Rescued In the Floods. Unusual Service By the Whitby Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland PLC
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Cb Or Vhf? the Coastguard's View
OVER THE PAST five years, HM Coastguard has been provided with a great deal of very sophisticated VHF radio equipment to cover the International distress and calling frequency and other frequencies in the marine band. This system now covers...
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The Converted Ship's Life-Boat Strathclyde
Newhaven, Sussex - At 7.47 p.m. on 6th September, 1969, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a vessel was in difficulties about seven miles south east of the station.
At 7.55 the life-boat Kathleen Marywas...
The Fishing Smacks Valiant and Trio
PORTHDINLLAEN, NORTH WALES. A signal of distress having been shown by the fishing smack Valiant, of Carnarvon, which was at anchor in Porthdinllaen bay, during a N.N.W. wind and a very heavy sea, the George Moore Life-boat was launched at 8...
The Sailing and Motor Yacht Eleanor
Lowestoft, Suffolk.—At 4.45 A.M. on the 8th April, 1938, the coastguard reported a small yacht in difficulties.
A strong N.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a heavy sea. The motor life-boat Agnes Cross was launched at 4.55 A.M....
The Dailing Dinghy Imp and a Canoe
Hoylake, Cheshire.—At 2.5 on the afternoon of the 13th of August, 1954, the police reported that a sailing dinghy had capsized off Meols. At 2.49 the life-boat Oldham IV was launched.
The sea was rough, a moderate westerly...
The Lifting Barge Eileen Dubv E.
Escort for barge with dangerous list Holyhead's relief Tyne class Voluntary Worker was called on to stand by when the cargo aboard the 40m lifting barge Eileen Dubv E shifted in a Force 6 WNW wind and moderate to rough seas some seven...
A Shipwreck. The Life-Boat Service
WE have extracted the following account of a Shipwreck and Life-boat service from an entertaining work, A Marine Residence, by the Author of Lost Sir Massingbred, published by Messrs. CHAPMAN and HALL.
The incidents...
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