LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A New Type of Life-Boat
Chief Inspector of Life-boats THE new 42-feet by 14-feet Watson cabin life-boat, the first of which has now gone to her station at Coverack, Cornwall, is the successor of the 41-feet by 11-feet 8-inches Watson type boat, which first came...
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Ninth International Life-Boat Conference
The ninth international life-boat con- ference was held in Edinburgh from 4th to 6th June, 1963. Apart from the British delegation there were repre- sentatives of sixteen nations present. Of the European countries there were delegations from...
Category: Meetings
90—And Still at Work
MRS. LOTIXGA SMITH, of Gcdling, Nottingham, celebrated her ninetieth birthday on the K th of November, 1947.
In spite of her great age, in spite of ill health and in spite of an accident last winter when she was knocked...
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New Life-Boats
Two new self-righting steel life-boats, each nearly 50 ft. in length and capable of carrying up to 100 survivors, 28 of them under cover, have been allocated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to stations in...
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To EDWIN W. DISTIN, on his retirement, after serving for 29| years as coxswain of the Salcombe life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service and an annuity.
The late GEORGE S. KELLY, who for 15 years was coxswain and 6...
Category: Awards
The 46Ft 9In Watson Relief Lifeboat William Gammon Manchester and District Xxx on Temporary Duty at Cromer Launches on Service to Diana V Photographs By Cou
The 46ft 9in Watson relief lifeboat William Gammon, Manchester and District XXX, on temporary duty at Cromer, launches on service to Diana V. - View image in PDF
photographs by courtesy of Poppyland Photographs. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Boat
At 9.44 p.m. on soth May, 1967, it was learned that a small boat had broken down near the Stone Banks buoy. After it was ascertained that a shore boat could not assist and in view of the weather forecast the life-boat Cecil and Lilian...
Pet
On the 7th November, at 5 A.M., the Samuel Plimsoll Life-boat was launched, signals of distress having been shown by vessel on the Newcomb Sand. A moderate S.S. W. gale was blowing at the time, accompanied by a rough sea. On arriving at the...
A Small Boat (4)
The Humber, Yorkshire.—3rd August.
Two boys in a small boat had drifted away from Cleethorpes, but reached land again without help.—Permanent crew: Rewards, 6s..
A Small Boat
Margate, Kent.—3rd March. A small boat with two boys on board had been reported missing, but no trace of her could be found.—Rewards, £14 2s..