LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Stern Test
A STERN TEST Inshore lifeboats are equipped with powerful engines to reach casualties quickly, but many rescues call for some strong handiwork too. Rory Stamp reports The skipper knew it wouldn’t be easy to get his yacht Sub Woofer back into...
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A Dinghy
Pwllheli, Caernarvonshire. At 12.50 p.m. on ist September, 1965, the coastguard notified the mechanic that a small boat was in difficulties off Carreg-y- Defaid. At 12.54 tne IRB launched in a gentle to moderate northerly breeze and smooth...
Windy Wyne
Weymouth, Dorset - At 10.46 p.m.
on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the motor cruiser Windy Wyne of Falmouth had asked for assistance as her engine had broken down half a mile north-west...
The Right Hon. The Lord Winster, P.C., K.C.M.G.
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD WINSTER, P.C., K.C.M.G., died on the 8th June, 1961, at the age of 76. He joined the Committee of Management of the Insti- tution in 1932, and was elected a Vice- President in 1955.
He was at one...
Category: Obituaries
Memoir of the Late Rear-Adml. Washington, F.R.S.
BY RICHARD LEWIS, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
IT is with deep regret we record the death of REAR-ADMIRAL WASHINGTON, Hydrographer of the Admiralty. He died at Havre, on the 16th September last, after a painful illness of...
Category: Obituaries
Figureheads Were a Feature of This Fishermen's Hut (Left) Which Once Stood Near the Harbour Mouth at Lowestoft, Suffolk. the Figureheads Shown Below Portray (Left to Right) William Iv, the Sailor
Figureheads were a feature of this fishermen's hut (left) which once stood near the harbour mouth at Lowestoft, Suffolk. The figureheads shown below portray (left to right) William IV, the Sailor King1; a woman who once adorned the bow... - View image in PDF
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Fury
SIX TAKEN ABOARD At 6.35 p.m. on ist June, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen off Foreness.
The life-boat North Foreland (Civil Service No. n) was launched at 6.50 in a heavy...
United States Life-Saving Service
IN the report which has been recently issued by the General Superintendent of the Life-saving Service, for the fiscal year ended 30th June 1884, it is stated that there were then 201 Life-Saving Stations under their management, 156 being on...
Category: Articles
Capsizing Tests on 44-002
As we closed for press the life-boat 44-002 John F. Kennedy, the first of the Institution's fleet of six 44-ft. steel life-boats, was undergoing trials at Lowestoft, Suffolk. Here she is shown during capsizing and self-righting tests at... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs