LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Journey's end: a team of eight runners, with a back-up team of four,
Journey's end: A team of eight runners, with a back-up team of four, all from 414 Tank Transporter Unit of the Royal Corps of Transport stationed near Salisbury, completed a marathon run along the Welsh coast from Cardiff to Flint in... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Isabella Granger, of Whitby
"While she was rendering this service, the Mark Lane Life-boat had gone off to a vessel which had sunk in the Roads, but no traces could be found of the crew of that ill-fated ship. The boat was returning when she was hailed by the...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and figures Provisional statistics as at 15 June 1989, show that so far this year: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 871 times (an average of more than 5 launches a day) More than 332 lives were saved (an average of 2 people...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE.—On the evening of the 1st January one of the fishermen reported that a vessel was showing a light, evidently in close proximity to the Annat Bank. The Life-boatmen were at once assembled and the No. 1 Life-beat Sarah...
Category: Services
Boydell's Patent Self-Laying Endless Railway
IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...
Category: Articles
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 8.—The Dover Life-Boat for the Help of Aeroplanes
AT Dover is stationed the only motor life-boat of this type, specially designed for the special conditions of the Straits, across which there is not only the heavy passenger steamer traffic, but a con- siderable daily traffic by aeroplanes,...
Category: Articles
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Girls trapped A POLICE message on May 1 told the Newquay, Cornwall, ILB that four people were stranded on rocks on the north side of Zacrys Island.
The maroons were fired at 4.26 p.m.
Wind was north...
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Category: Advertisement
Gallant Conduct of Irish Fishermen
IN former numbers of this Journal we have had occasion to point out that the use of the means at hand, in case of shipwreck, although of the rudest and simplest form, may by a little ingenuity and presence of mind, often prove of service in...
Category: Articles
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