LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Letters (Continued from Page 65)
where she had 53 service launches at 16 stations and rescued a further 19 lives. She was one of the 19 lifeboats that went to Dunkirk in 1940.
Getting back to the sponsored marathon row, on the way down the River Thames,...
Category: Correspondence
The S.S. Primrose
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON JANUARY 30TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. In the early morning of the 27th of January, 1941, many mines came ashore in Ballycotton Bay, on the south coast of Ireland, and four of them exploded, doing...
The Use of Oil for Smoothing Troubled Waters
WITH the view of diminishing the serious loss of life which takes place every year from fishing-vessels both on the coasts of the United Kingdom and in the North Sea, and other fishing grounds, the Com- mittee of the NATIONAL SEA FISHERIES...
Category: Articles
Life-Belts
No life-boat station can be considered complete without a set of life-belts for the boat's crew, and the several local committees should insist upon having them, and upon the belts being put on, before the men go afloat. The qualities...
Category: Articles
BRINGING 200 TONNES OF TRAWLER HOME
Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …
The...
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Life-Boat Societies Abroad
THE LIFE-BOAT [DECEMBER, 1954 Life-boat Societies Abroad The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of...
Category: Articles
The Danish Fishing Vessels Clupea, Rosslau, Anne Stranne and Kami
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Form and function
They must be practical, versatile and tough enough to take a pounding, yet still live in harmony with their communities. Architect Mark Roberts explains just some of the challenges of designing lifeboat stations
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Correspondence
WE have to acknowledge the receipt from time to time of various communications from Mr. BALLINGALL, of Melbourne, New South Wales, on the subjects of unsafe ship-building, the causes of shipwrecks, &c.
Mr....
Category: Correspondence
Life-Boat Societies
The Royal National Life-Boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Con- ference that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all life-boat societies. The...
Category: Articles