LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Stitch In Time
A stitch in time...
could save a lifeboat from launching The RNLI has started an initiative to slow the seemingly inexorable increase in lifeboat launches - by working to prevent incidents occurring in the first...
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Lifeboat Services
LOUGH SWILLY BACKS-UP RIGID INFLATABLE Lou (ill Swilly Ireland Division Photographers save fishermen in Gale A rescue carried out by the crew of a rigid inflatable in Gale force conditions on 16 April 1991 has earned its two-man crew awards...
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A Vessel (11)
DECEMBER 24TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL, AND APPLEDORE, DEVON.
During the afternoon information was received from the coastguard that a vessel appeared to be in difficulties about five miles west-north-west of Hartland Point. A...
The Problem of Designing Life-Boats. Self-Righting Life-Boats Or Life-Boats Which Cannot Self-Right
By Commander T. G. Michelmore, R.D., R.N.R.
Chief Inspector of Life-boats WHENEVER a life-boat of the type which cannot right herself is capsized the same questions are asked. "Why cannot all life-boats right...
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Mr Punch on the Life-Boat Service
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 154 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to July 31st, 1950 - 76,938 Mr. Punch on the Life-boat Service This article by Mr. P. R....
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Forty-Five Hours on the Goodwins. Thirty Lives Rescued from An Italian Steamer
By L. H. Shelvey, Honorary Secretary of the Walmer Station AT ten past three on the afternoon of Friday the 2nd of January, the coastguard telephoned to me that a vessel appeared to be aground on the Goodwin Sands, one and a half miles...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches. 110. Lives rescued 113.
April Meeting.
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wezford On the evening of the 5th February the s.s. Elsie Annie, of Wexford, ran aground on the North Dogger bank, N.W. of...
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A Steam Trawler (3)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—10th January. A steam trawler had been reported to be dragging her anchor, but was not in need of help.—Rewards, Caister, £43 7s. 6d.; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, £28...
Cullercoats Disaster. Six Lives Lost In a Capsize on a Practice Launch
JUST after two in the afternoon of 22nd April, the Cullercoats motor life-boat Richard Silver Oliver was launched on exercise. She is a boat of the light Liverpool type, 35 feet 6 inches by 10 feet 3 inches, weighing seven tons with her crew...
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A Dinghy (14)
St. David's Pembrokeshire - At 5.35 p.m. on 24th August, 1967, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a man who was standing on a rock near South Bishop lighthouse was signalling for assistance. There was sailing dinghy in...