LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Awards to Honorary Workers
To Miss MILLS, in recognition of her valuable co-operation at Bermondsey, the Gold Brooch and Record of Thanks.
To Mrs. BERTHA ROE, in recognition of her valuable co-operation at Plymouth, the Gold Brooch and Record of...
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Early History of the Sliding-Keel
IT is very difficult to ascertain with any degree of exactitude when sliding or drop-keels first came into use. In the third volume of " An History of Marine Architecture," by John Charnock, F.S.A., published in 1802, there is a...
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The Spanish Liquid Gas Carrier Butaseis
Liquid gas carrier fire A SPANISH LIQUID gas carrier Butaseis, lying at anchor three quarters of a mile off Brixham breakwater with a fire in her crew's quarters, was reported to the honorary secretary of Torbay lifeboat station at 0749...
A Fishing Vessel (1)
Faster... and further The abilities of the new generation of fast lifeboats were highlighted on the very day that this page of The Lifeboat went to press - with Eyemouth's Trent Barclaycard Crusader going to the aid of a stricken fishing...
Inshore Lifeboat Services March April and May 1976
Aberdovey, Gwynedd March 21, 24, April 17, 19 and 23.
Abersoch, Gwynedd April 13.
Aberystwyth, Dyfed April 27 (twice).Arran, Strathclyde May 29.
Atlantic College, South Glamorgan March 17...
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APPENDICITIS PATIENT Islay, Inner Hebrides. At 10.20 p.m.
on 2 ist July, 1964, a local doctor told the honorary secretary that an appendicitis patient was in urgent need of an operation.
The air ambulance...
Signals of Distress (1)
To THE EDITOR OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL.
SIR, In the article headed ' Signals of Distress' in your last quarterly publication of August 1,1 find it stated that, in the first place," It is indispensable that...
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February (1)
CROSSAIG, KINTYRE, ARGYLLSHIRE. Just before daylight on the 26th of May, 1943, a Royal Naval aeroplane dived into the sea near Crossaig, north of Carradale, on the east coast of Kintyre. The weather was fair, the sea smooth. Eleven men were...
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Boy Charlie
JANUARY 29TH. - TORBAY, DEVON.
During the afternoon the motor life-boat George Shee was launched for exercise in a N.N.W. gale, with a rough sea. As she returned to her moorings at about 3.30 P.M.
she saw...
A Noteworthy Jubilee
FIFTY years ago, i.e. on the 20th of Octo- ber, 1842, there was laid to rest in her early grave, amid the stormy surround- ings of her short life, one of the greatest heroines the world has ever known. After this lapse of time the story of...
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