THE unusually fine weather of the last three months has been most favourable to Life-boat Saturday demonstrations throughout the country, and hardly a Saturday has passed without one or more of such functions being held. The popu- larity of...
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JUNE 10TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. At 9.15 in the morning the lifeboat’s assistant motor-mechanic reported a yacht up against the east pier. The wind was blowing very strongly from the northwest, and the sea was rough....
As recorded in The Life-boat for last September, the Honorary Secretary of the Cobham (Surrey) Branch, made a rug in the shape and colours of the Institution's flag for an official of the Sudan Government Dockyard at Khartoum, giving the...
Category: Donations
BY the death of ex-Coxswain Kobert Smith of Tynemouth, on 30th October last, in his eightieth year, one of the greatest of the Institution's Coxswains has passed away. No man more gallantly and more honourably carried on the great...
Category: Obituaries
John Harrison,chairman of the Shoreham appeal committee, holds the cheque for £7,000 presented to the appeal by the 3rd Battalion The Queens Regiment at a ceremony held at the station's boathouse. (Photo Beckett... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
At 6.35 p.m. on 30th July, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Icelandic vessel Magnus IV had engine trouble and required a tow.
The life-boat The Duchess of Kent was launched at 6.56 in a fresh...
The upkeep of the Dungeness station has cost the R.N.L.I, huge sums of money over the years. The sea has receded so steadily that older Dungeness life-boat houses are far inland. This picture taken in November 1967 indicates some of the... - View image in PDF
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self-righting calculations. This is one reason why the Arun and FAB 3 (left) have a proportionally greater superstructure volume than the smaller classes of lifeboat such as the Tyne (right) and Mersey - whose deck is low enough to recover... - View image in PDF
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OCTOBER 20TH. - PETERHEAD, ABERDEENSHIRE.
The coastguard had under observation the Aberdeen fishing boat Fortunatus, as her engine had failed. AT 5.35 in the evening she made distress signals, and at 5.55 the motor...
NEW ROMNEY, KENT.—The Life-boat Sandal Magna was launched at 9 P.M. on the 10th February, in a very heavy sea and a strong S.S.B. wind, and rescued the crew, consisting of ten men, from the brigantine Carl Rosinius, of aad from Hangesuud for...