LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Improved Rollers for Lifeboat Carriages and Skids
Is No. 43 of this Journal we described and illustrated the portable " Roller Skids " on which life-boats are hauled out of the wafer prior to placing them on their carriages, and in the 59th number an improved self-lubri- cating...
Category: Articles
Four Life-Boats Are Named. Countess Howe at Yarmouth
OVER a year after she was first introduced experimentally into the life-boat service, the 48-foot 6-inch Oakley prototype life-boat, The* Earl and Countess Howe, was named and dedicated at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, on 26th...
Category: Inaugurations
The S.S. Gourie, S.S. Finland, and Steamers Ivan Kondrup and Feddy
JANUARY 9TH. - ABERDEEN. At 11.40 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that machine-gun fire and the sound of bomb explosions, from an attack by enemy aircraft on shipping, had been heard east of Downie Point. A fresh S.S.W. wind...
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Cromarty.—About 4.50 in the after- noon of the 24th of June, 1948, the coastguard reported information re- ceived that a small vessel appeared to have broken down a quarter of a mile south of South Sutor, and the motor life-boat James Macfee...
A Cabin cruiser
RED FLARES At 5.15 p.m. on ist December, 1964, the coastguard told the assistant honorary secretary that a small cabin cruiser off Broad Bench had fired red flares. There was a choppy sea with a moderate to fresh north-easterly wind. The...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 6th October, 1887.
L. T. CAVE, Esq., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the pre- vions Meeting.
Also read those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, Building,...
Category: Committee
Past and Present
40 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, April 1949 issue As the last of the sailing life-boats was replaced by a motor life-boat on the 12th oJDecember, 1948, the term motor life-boat will no longer be used. "Life-boat" will...
Category: Articles
Mercantile Credit
SHORELINE MAKES PERSONAL LCANS PLAIN SAILING.
SHORELINE MAKES MARINE LOANS PLAIN SAILING A new boat3 a refit? Or just a little help with annual expenses? Whatever your requirements, if you're an RNLI supporter you can...
Category: Advertisement
Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in ! rear of the main axle, the...
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Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
LIFE-BOAT TRANSPORTING-CARRIAGE AS ADOPTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
THE carriage consists of a fore and main body. The latter is formed of a keelway A, A, and of side or bilgeways B, B, in rear of the...
Category: Articles