LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Membership News
Happy Anniversary The RNLI membership scheme celebrated its 20th anniversary on 2 January 1989 with a membership of 135,401. By 5 March, just two months later, this had increased by more than 4,000 to some 139,726, which is very good news...
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National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol
The RNLI's charter docs not make provision (or the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and ihc National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...
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Lowestoft: a Trimaran on Passage from Wells to Ramsgate Was Reported Making Water Fast Sunday August 6 Lowestoft's 47Ft Watson Lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick
Lowestoft: A trimaran on passage from Wells to Ramsgate was reported making water fast on Sunday August 6. Lowestoft's 47ft Watson lifeboat Frederick Edward Crick launched at 0554 and reached the casualty at 0750. Three people were taken... - View image in PDF
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First Service of Aberdeen's New Lifeboat the 54' Arun Bp Forties on July 28 Was to Peterhead Fishing Boat Westerdale Which Reported Flooding In Her Engine Room Bp
. . . First service of Aberdeen's new lifeboat, the 54' Arun BP Forties, on July 28, was to Peterhead fishing boat Westerdale, which reported flooding in her engine room. BP Forties reached Westerdale, 38 miles offshore east of... - View image in PDF
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As Reported In the October 1972 Issue of the Life-Boat the Rev George Waddington Formerly Chaplain to the St.Mary's Scilly Islands Life-Boat Has Moved to Pais
As reported in the October, 1972, issue Of THE LIFE-BOAT, the Rev. George Waddington, formerly chaplain to the St. Mary's, Scilly Islands, life-boat, has moved to Paisley and is sporting the R.N.L.I, crest on his ceremonial preaching... - View image in PDF
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The Wreck of the Deutschland
ON the morning of the 6th December, 1875, occurred one of those sad disasters which ever and anon remind us of the dangerous character of our shores, the wreck of an emigrant ship. But a few months since the German passenger steamer Schiller...
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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
IT is intended in this and each future number of the Life-boat Journal to give our readers a short account of two or more of the stations of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
These sketches—for they will be of that...
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The High-Speed Ferry St Malo
The service by St Helier's Tyne class lifeboat to the high-speed ferry St Malo - reported in the Summer issue of The Lifeboat- has led to the award of the Thanks of the Institution on Vellum to her ex-coxswain, Robert...
Celebrating the Isle of Man's Millennium: Port St.Mary Prepares for the Review of the Sail Training Fleet By Hm King Olaf of Norn-Ay August4 1979 Port Erin and Port St.Mary Lifeboats Are Seen In
Celebrating the Isle of Man's millennium: Port St Mary prepares for the review of the Sail Training fleet by HM King Olaf of Norn-ay, August4, 1979. Port Erin and Port St Mary lifeboats are seen in centre of picture taken from an SAR... - View image in PDF
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LIFEBOAT LOTTERY
AUTUMN 2018 RESULTS
Congratulations to Mr K Cooper from Norfolk who won our first prize of £5,000 cash.
OUR OTHER WINNERS WERE:
2nd PRIZE: £2,000
Mrs D Upfold,...
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