LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fast from a Carriage the Fast Carriage Lifeboat Takes Shape
The experimental prototype of a new design of 38ft lifeboat which is fast, yet capable of launching from a carriage, is now under construction and will begin trials in the spring. Edward Wake-Walker examines her development.THE RNLI HAS A...
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The Third Boat
The Third Boat by Leila Mackinlay (Ward Lock & Co. Ltd., I2s. 6d.) takes its title from a Manx superstition and this pleasant but somewhat fragmentary tale is rarely out of sight or sound of the sea. Moving from Morecambe Bay to the Isle...
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The Corporation of Trinity House
IN the Journal of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION it is fitting that there should appear a brief account of the history and functions of the Cor- poration of Trinity House, the General Lighthouse and Pilotage Authority for the...
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September (1)
SEPTEMBER MEETING FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE. On the 11th June, 1942, a Spitfire aeroplane was on a practice flight when the engine failed and the pilot landed on the sea. There was a slight swell with a light N.E. wind. The aeroplane sank...
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A Working Man on the Life-Boat Service
THE following letter was received last October from Ashington, the mining village in Northumberland. The Cresswell Lifeboat Station IB not far away, and most of the Cresswell Crew have at one time or another worked in theAshington mines. The...
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Books
• To say that the colour photographs which fill Lifeboat (Franklin Watts) are enough to sell the book on its own is to do an injustice to Heather Deane's clear and concise description of the RNLI, how it works, what it comprises and how...
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H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G.: President
H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G., has been pleased to assume the office of President of the Institution. He is the fifth member of the Royal Family to become President. King Edward VII.
King George V, King Edward VIIIJ and...
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Ocean
CLACTON-ON-SEA.—The Albert Edward Life-boat put off at about 7.30 P.M. on the 14th October, in reply to signals of distress, during a very strong N.W. wind and very rough sea. After cruising about for some time the schooner Ocean, of Goole,...
Yachts and Dinghies (1)
A combination of fair weather and thunderstorms made for a particularly busy weekend for the RNLI in May 2005. In two days, RNLI crews launched more than 75 times and rescued around 100 people On 7 May sailors were caught out by strong winds...
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st December, 1955 79,970 Notes of the Quarter THE year 1955 has been classified by...
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