LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy
Yarmouth, Isle of Wight.—At 4.10 on the afternoon of the 24th of August, 1954, the police reported that a dinghy, with two children on board, was adrift off the entrance to Beaulieu River.
At 7.28 the life-boat The Lord...
Fungfrau
DRIFTING NEAR ROCKS Donaghadee, Co. Down. At 7.7 p.m.
on i6th May, 1964, the Orlock Head coastguard told the honorary secretary that red flares had been seen half a mile east of South Briggs buoy. Seven minutes later the...
Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part IV: Deck and Superstructure
FROM PREVIOUS PARTS of this article it will be remembered that, as the fast slipway boat (FSB) is made of steel, her hull is built upside-down until plating is complete. Here (Figs I and 2) the second of the two prototype FSBs building at...
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First class delivery
Supporters donated generously for her construction, volunteers gave their time to trial her, and the RNLI’s project team worked day and night. Now a new class of all-weather lifeboat has become a reality after the first Shannon entered the...
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An Admiralty Tug
THREE LIFE-BOATMEN OVERBOARD NOVEMBER 9TH - 10TH. - MONTROSE, AND BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. Shortly after six in the evening an Admiralty tug was bombed from the air. The Montrose coxswain saw the bombs dropping. Thinking that the life-boat...
The Use of the Lead
THE great necessity of constantly using the lead or sounding has been recognised from the earliest period in the history of navigation.
In the present day, when so many thousand vessels are engaged in carrying on the...
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Freemen of the Sea, By Dora Walker
Freemen of the Sea, by Dora Walker (A. Brown & Sons, Ltd., B.C. 1. 10/6) Miss DORA WALKER, who is president of the Whitby Ladies' Life-boat Guild, has written a charming anecdotal book about the seafarers of Whitby; a series of...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHWOLD.—We have inadvertently omitted to notice in its proper order a new life-boat, which was placed at Southwold, in Suffolk, in the autumn of 1852.
This boat was built by BEECHING and SONS, of Great Yarmouth, on the...
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Galaxy
Walton and Frinton, Essex. At 7.13 a.m. on 23rd April, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that an urgent appeal had been intercepted from the master of the motor vessel Galaxy (the wireless transmitting station "Radio...
Turpina
Capsized yacht WHILE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY Viking Venturer was entering the Needles Channel on Monday evening July 3 she reported at 2002 the sighting of a capsized and semi-sunken yacht five cables south of Bridge Buoy. There was no sign of...