LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Experimental Floating Stretchers
TRIALS ARE AT PRESENT in progress on two different possible answers to the same problem: how best to achieve a stretcher which will float. While flotation is obviously a desirable extra safeguard in any marine situation, there are also many...
Category: Articles
Coxswain William Fleming, G.C.
WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.
He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...
Category: Obituaries
Jean
FLARES NEAR ISLAND At 8.24 p.m. on i2th September, 1964, the coastguard told the coxswain that flares had been seen between Puffin Island and Great Orme Head. It was low water with a smooth sea and light airs. At 8.40 the life-boat Cunard,...
Royal Visits
Top) HRH The Duchess of Kent talks to crew and station personnel at Pwllheli lifeboat station during her tour. - View image in PDF
Photo Peter Westley Photography. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
DOVER.—While a strong gale was blow- ing from N.E., accompanied by a heavy sea, on the 25th March, 1898, two vessels in the bay showed signals of distress, and at 10 A.M. the Life-boat Lewis Morice put off to their assistance. She first...
Category: Services
Sulabassana
Yacht aground WHILE A RACE FROM ABERSOCH Was being timed into Howth Harbour at about 2330 on Saturday, August 28, 1976, the yacht Sulabassana of Holyhead, a 32' Nicholson, attempted to pass inside the buoys marking the rocks off the end...
Lifeboat Services from Page 82
from page 82 ties, exhausted by the strength of the tide and the coldness of the water. He towed them to Cowloe Rocks, which were much nearer than the shore, and told them to clamber over the top to the shoreward side while he paddled his...
Category: Services
People and Places
C ratty Draw Members of the Craft Club drew the winning tickets of the RNLI's 57th National Lottery at Headquarters on 30 April.
The Club ('Can't Remember A Flipping Thing') was founded by Jim Marsham and...
Category: Articles
Champion of The Seas
At 1 A.M.
on the 15th October it was reported that a schooner was ashore on the north beach. The rocket apparatus turned out and endeavoured to effect communication from the shore, but the vessel was too far off, and they...
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 54 Number 535 Chairman: SIR MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES CUE RD FNI RNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Editorial Assistant: JON JONES Advertisement Manager: JOHN FARNHILL...
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