LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Corner In Cumbria: Workington Silloth and St.Bees Three Lifeboat Stations on the Solway Firth and Its Southern Approaches
THREE CUMBRIAN STATIONS, St BeeS, Workington and Silloth, complementing each other, are the guardians of the southern approaches to the Firth of Solway and of the firth itself, just as Kirkcudbright and Kippford guard the waters to the north...
Category: Articles
Coastguard Lt-Cdr Tim Fetherston-Dilke the New Chief Coastguard Talks of the Re-Organisation Taking Place Within the Servjce
Coastguard . . .
LT-CDR TIM FETHERSTON-DILKE, the new 'Chief, talks of the re-organisation taking place within Her Majesty's Coastguard, emphasising that its long-standing traditional relationship with the lifeboat...
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Books
• Commenting on Yacht Signalling by Bernard Hayman (Nautical Books, Macmillan, £8.95) Rear Admiral W. J.
Graham, director of the Institution, wrote: 'This most comprehensive book on signalling to and from yachts is...
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Ceremonies
Thurso- Arun class The Queen Mother On Wednesday 9 August Thurso's new Arun class lifeboat The Queen Mother was overshadowed by the presence at Scrabster Harbour of her namesake, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, who had so...
Category: Inaugurations
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HOLYHEAD.—While a strong gale was blowing from N.W., accompanied by a heavy sea and rain, on the evening of the 6th Aug., 1900, the Coxswain of the Life-boat observed a barque dragging her anchors and driving towards the Nimrod rocks. He...
Category: Services
Lights and Lighthouses
HAVING in our last number described the buildings and floating vessels from which beacon lights are exhibited, we have now to give some account of the nature and history of the lights themselves.
At a very remote period,...
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On the Variations of the Reading of the Barometer and the Weather In the Months of September, October and November, 1865
By JAMES GLAISHER, ESQ, F H.S. , THE variations in the readings of the barometer at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, in the period from September 12 to November 30, making altogether eighty days, are shown in the accompanying diagram and...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1874-75
THE wreck statistics of the twelve months ending in June, 1875, certainly record the most numerous casualties that have hitherto taken place in one year. The officers of H.M. Coastguard and Board of Trade have left not a single shipping ac-...
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Working Together: Helicopters and Lifeboats
AT THE TIME of the London Boat Show last January a discussion was held on the shared task of lifesaving at sea by lifeboats and rotary wing aircraft. The helicopters of the Royal Navy were represented by Lt-Cdr Adrian Thomas, Commanding...
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News from the Branches
1st April to 30th June.
Greater London.
GREATER LONDON. — Meeting of London members of the Ladies' Lifeboat Guild at the house of the Duchess of Sutherland, President of the...
Category: Branches