LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Conference
Conference 155) plank and frame wooden construction. Burdensome sail and displacement-type power yachts are proper candidates.
The only overlap of applicability occurs in the case of fibreglass and aluminium. But even here...
Category: Meetings
Unbe Mendi
On the morning of the 24th February a Seaford resident telephoned to the assistant honorary secretary that a steamer was ashore at Seaford Head. She was the Unbe Mendi, of Bilbao, bound for Rotterdam with a cargo of iron ore. A moderate S.W....
A Dinghy and Buccaneer
Dinghy and motorboat SHOREHAM HARBOUR ILB launched at 1519 on Tuesday, May 27, two minutes after the honorary secretary had been informed by the Coastguard that a dinghy had capsized one mile off Lancing. The sea was smooth with strong north...
West Coaster
WATERFORD. A W. by S. wind was OC T . 9 T H - HELVICK HEAD, CO.
blowing, with a heavy sea. At 2 P.M. the motor life-boat Elsie was launched to the help of the motor vessel West Coaster, of London, which was in distress in...
Obituaries
Deaths It is with regret that we report the following deaths Basil Hutchinson Former organising secretary midlands, who retired in 1982, on 16 January Gerry Prest Former Littlehampton branch chairman, in January Kenneth Atha Former Halifax...
Category: Obituaries
A Motor Boat
Selsey, Sussex.—At 3.5 on the after- noon of the 14th of May, 1955, the coastguard telephoned that a motor boat, believed to be one in which the life-boat honorary secretary's son and two of his friends had put out earlier in the day....
Leverton
Leverton .
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Whether you are specifying marine engines for your new craft, repowering, looking for lightweight compact power, planning a complete propulsion or...
Category: Advertisement
St. Mary's, Woolwich. Presentation of Life-Boat Institution Award
eAN interesting ceremony took place on Wednesday, October 16th, in St. Mary's Girls' School, Woolwich, the occasion being the award of the Challenge Shield for London in connection with the recent essay competition on the "...
Category: Awards
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY...
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Book Review
0 In Power Boats in Rough Seas (Adlard Coles Ltd., £4.25) Dag Pike has taken a sharp, discerning look at the factors affecting the seaworthiness and safety of power boats and described them in concise, seamanlike terms. Whatever...
Category: Articles