LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

FRENCH TRAWLER TAKEN IN TOW Galway Bay. At 8.45 on the morning of the 20th February, 1962, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that a French fishing vessel with her trawl net entangled in her propeller needed help south of...

JULY 15TH. - DUNBAR, EAST LOTHIAN. At 2 P.M. news was received that the steamer, St. Clears, of Newport, of 8,000 tons, had stranded at Whitberry Ness in a fog, and at 2.5 P.M. the motor life-boat George and Sarah Strachan was launched. A...

FROM AN ARTICLE on Horton and Port Eynon ILB station by Mr C. R. Chatterton published in the Newsletter of Reardon Smith Line. Mr Chatterton is chairman of both the shipping line and the ILB station branch: 'Operating an inshore lifeboat...

Helping lascars of the " Magdapur's " crew ashore. They were covered with oil. - View image in PDF

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ML A AMERICAN TRUST Top UK managers get together with the world's top economy MLA Unit Trust Management - responsible for the long-term success of MLA General Trust, one of the UK's top-performing funds. The USA - the world's...

electronic aids to navigation DEPTH—by HECTA echo-sounder, as supplied to the R.N.LI, and to att yachts of the successful British Admiral's Cup team. This instrument indicates depth by pointer and scale, and illumination for night use is...

Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 26 May 1993 show that so tar during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 661 times (an average of more than 4 launches a day) 134 lives have been saved (an average of nearly one a day)...

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