LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Necessity of Life-Belts for Vessels' Crews
WE have from time to time advocated in the strongest terms the supply of efficient life-belts to the crews of all our merchantships, and have pointed out the duty that devolves on shipowners to provide'the same, although the law of the...
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Oak from Devon
The first process. Dividing a crook for stems. It weighed 5 tons and the tree was about 200 years old.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Service to a Tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary
AT 3.40 on the afternoon of 17th November, 1962 the honorary secre- tary of the Clovelly life-boat station, Mr. J. C. Hilton, learnt from the coast- guard that a tug was firing red flares three miles north-west of Hartland Point. Five...
Category: Services
Siskin
Fishermen stranded by engine failure There are many situations that a lifeboat coxswain does not look forward to.
Bad weather, manoeuvring with boats close together, towing a heavy, unwieldy vessel, waiting at sea for the...
An Aeroplane
29th July. An aeroplane was reported to have dived into the sea, but the life- boat found nothing.—Rewards, £15 17s..
German Gratitude for a Life-Boat Rescue. Award of Iron Plaque to the Crew at Thurso, Caithness-Shire
THE German Government has awarded to the Crew of the Life-boat at Thurso, Caithness-shire, " an Iron Plaque for rescue from distress at sea," diplomas to the Coxswain, Second Coxswain and Bowman, and certificates to the members of...
Category: Services
Attempt to Steal a Life-Boat
Seven German prisoners of war, who had been wotking on tine beach at Wells, Norfolk, removing coast defences, and had seen the life-boat launched on exercise, stole a lorry from a car park and drove to the life-boat house on the night of...
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A Yacht From Dungarvan
JUNE 16TH. - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
WATERFORD. At three in the afternoon a man reported to the honorary secretary that a yacht from Dungarvan was at anchor about a mile and a half east of Helvick Head. A very strong...
To the Help of a Submarine
The submarine "Universal" broke down in Cardigan Bay on the night of February 3rd. in a gale with a rough sea running and drifted up the bay for 60 miles. Four life-boats went out to her help, the St. David's boat, which helped...
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