LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"Literature of the Life-Boat"
IN October, 1936, Literature of the Life-boat, by Sir John Gumming, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., a vice-president-of the Institution, appeared as a supplement to; The Life-boat, and. a second part appeared a year later. In these two supplements Sir...
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Twilight
The lugger Twilight, of Inverness, when bound on the night of 4th October to Lowestoft for the herring fishing, stranded on the South Scroby Sands. There was a strong N.N.E. breeze with a heavy sea at the time, and their signals of distress...
Brookes & Gatehouse
HECTA echo sounder Model RS obtains the best of both worlds by using the rotating lamp system of display (with bright, everlasting light-emitting diodes) in the instrument case and a meter for the cockpit repeater. Hecta RS has a powerful 10...
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The Great British Mobility Group
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Services by Auxiliary Rescue-Boats
Launches 6 Lives rescued 3 COURTOWN, Co. WEXFORD. At 5.40 in the afternoon of the 22nd of October, 1942, the honorary agent received information that the local motor fishing boat St. Mary was in difficulties about three miles to the north of...
Category: Services
Entertainment of Gold Medallists and Crews
APART from the inspection of the Life-boats on the Thames and the visit to Fulham, everything was done by the Institution, with much generous help from others, to give the British and foreign Life-boatmen a good time while they were in...
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University Marine Ltd.
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48 Hours of Gale
66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...
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South Coaster
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRY DOCK DECEMBER 6TH. - BARRY DOCK, GLAMORGANSHIRE. During the morning a whole gale was blowing from the north-west at Barry Dock on the south coast of Wales, and at 10.30 the life-boat station received news from...
Star of Hope and Flora
Staithes, Yorkshire.—Early on the morning of the 6th May the local fishing cobles Star of Hope and Flora put to sea to haul crab and lobster pots.
Fog had been very dense for about sixteen hours, but had cleared. Some time...