LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Good-Bye to a Life-Boat By R W Frazer
WHEN 1 first visited Ring, Co. Waterford, in 1925, the Helvick Life-boat was housed at road-level in a kind of hanger built out over the water on stilts. A barometer was fixed outside, with the two legends familiar to seamen—'First rise...
Category: Articles
(Above) the Righting Demonstrations Proved As Popular As Ever
(above) The righting demonstrations proved as popular as ever - here an Atlantic regains her composure as the air bag inflates and the crew wait to board again. And, yes, that is a Mr Blobby floating on the left of the photo, having been... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 2. Mr. W. J. Oliver, Honorary Secretary and Treasurer of the Sunderland Branch
MR. W. J. OLIVER is not only one of the most devoted and indefatigable of the Honorary Secretaries who carry out the difficult and responsible task of administering the Station Branches, but he is himself a practical Life-boat man. His skill...
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September
Launches 75 Lives rescued 31
SEPTEMBER 1ST. - HELVICK HEAD, CO. WATERFORD. At 4.45 in the afternoon the sailing boat, St. Brendon, of Dungarvan, was sailing round the Black Rock in Dungarvan harbour. She had five on board....
Category: Services
A Motor Boat and the Survey Ship H.M.S. Scott
TOW FOR BOAT FROM SURVEY SHIP Skegness, Lincolnshire. At 4.45 on the afternoon of the 14th August, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that a small boat was burning red flares three-quarters of a mile off...
An Empty Boat Belonging To The Aberdeen Trawler Bracken Burn
JULY 31ST. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 9.30 in the morning a message was received from the coastguard asking that the life-boat should go to a position thirteen miles southeast by east of Arbroath, in answer to a ship’s SOS. The weather was foggy...
The American Steamer Chrysanthy Star and Energetic (1)
Cadgwith, and Penlee, Cornwall and St. Mary's, Isles of Scilly.—At 11.5 on the night of the 25th of June, 1948, during a thick fog, the Cadgwith coast- guard telephoned the Cadgwith life- boat station that the American steamer Chrysanthy...
The Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
IN a recent number of this Journal, after explaining the reasons which had led to the transfer of the Life-boat Establishments of the Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society to the Royal National Life-boat...
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Atlantic 21 Rigid Inflatables Are Built at Cowes Base and Also Undergo Survey Maintenance and Repair In the Base's Workshop
Atlantic 21 rigid inflatables are built at Cowes Base and also undergo survey, maintenance and repair in the base's workshop. (Photo Bob Kennovin). - View image in PDF
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1862
1.—Moved by The Right Hon. the LOED MAYOR, and carried unanimously,— 1.—That the following noblemen and gentlemen be the officers of the Institution for the current year:—(tscfe last page for this list) 2.—Moved by Vice-Admiral the Right Hon...
Category: Meetings