LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Blanche Moore, of Liverpool
On the 26th May, the Gertrude life-boat on this station put off, and succeeded in rescuing the whole of the crew of 36 men, belonging to the ship Blanche Moore, of Liverpool, which was totally wrecked during a strong wind and squally weather...
Herring Boats
A strong N.E. gale raised a nasty sea on the 2nd July, and about mid-day it increased so much that it was extremely dangerous to some of the herring-boats, which were waiting to come in on the flood tide. The life- saving apparatus was...
The Lifeboat Service— Past and Present
50 Years Ago The following two items were first published in THE LIFEBOAT of February, 1935.
Stories of a Life-boat Day.
ST. ALBANS, Hertfordshire, has the distinction of the help of many of its ex-mayors...
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Rnli News
Newspoint Top of the bill The November announcement by the Charities Aid Foundation that the RNLI was number one in the 1987 charities' 'top ten' is fitting recognition of the hard work put in by fund raisers throughout the...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
WORTHING.—The Life-boat at this j station has recently been replaced by a new and rather larger self-righting boat of the latest type, 35 feet long, 8i feet : wide, and rowing 10 oars double banked ; she has one drop keel and two water...
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The Atlantic 75
Hypalon coated nylon inflatable sponsons. All new boats are now orange.
Conical diaphram between sections allows some transfer of pressure if forward section is damaged and leaking.
Marine ply deck over...
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Lifeboat Services
MKDAUJS IS SHOVVKI) 'BRAVKRV AM) KXPKKTISK Sailor rescued as yacht is driven on to lee shore The coxswain and helmsman of Whitby's two lifeboats, the 44ft Waveney White Rose of Yorkshire and the D class inflatable Gwynaeth, have both...
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The S.S. Baron Douglas, the S.S. Korenica and Rumania
Hastings, and Eastbourne, Sussex, and Dungeness, Kent.—At three o'clock in the morning of the 14th of June, 1952, the S.S. Baron Douglas, of Ardrossan, bound for London from Macoris with a cargo of sugar, wirelessed that she had been...
Olive, of Banff
WICK, CAITHNESS-SHIRE. — On the 26th February, while the fishing boat Olive, of Banff, was attempting to put to sea in a moderate S.E. breeze, but rather rough sea, she grounded on a sandbankat the mouth of the harbour, when a huge wave...
Cairn Glen
On the evening of the 23rd March a telephone message was received from Wick coastguard that the steamer Cairn Glen, of New- castle, was ashore at Huna. She was bound with a general cargo to New- castle, from Halifax. The motor life- boat...