LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
WITH the conclusion of the Procurator Fiscal's enquiry, which was held at Kirkwall on 10th June, 1969, it is possible for the Institution to publish its own findings on the circumstances leading to the loss of the Longhope...
Category: Articles
The Cardiff Life-Boat Ball
In the front row are the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Cardiff and the Mayor and Mayoress of Newport, and immediately behind them Colonel Watts Morgan, M.P., the Chief Constable of Cardiff and Captain P. H.
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Category: Photographs
Accounts of Services by Life-boats (5)
Launches 29. Lives rescued 54.
JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface....
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Service In 1952
FOR the third year, in the seven years since the war ended, the Life-boat Service set up a new record. In 1952 its boats went out to the rescue 657 times. That is more than ever before in time of peace, and though the figure is considerably...
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150th Anniversary of the Wreck of the Forfarshire— Grace Darling In Context By Georgette Purches Assistant Public Relations Officer
Is there in the field of history, or of fiction even, one instance of female heroism to compare for one moment, with this? wrote The Times in 1838.
The event to which the leading article in the newspaper referred was the...
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February
Launches 61 Lives rescued 72
FEBRUARY 1ST. - CLACTON - ON - SEA, ESSEX. At 12.24 in the morning the coastguard telephoned that red flares had been seen four miles south-west-by-west of Clacton pier, and half an hour later...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BUTTON, LINCOLNSHIRE. — A message by telephone was received on the 21st May, 1898, stating that a steamer was aground about two hundred yards south of Huttoft. The Life-boat Sir John was launched at 12.45 p.m., and found the vessel was the...
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Two Racing Boats
A party of four men and six women, students from the University, had an exciting adventure near Aberystwyth on the 17th April. They left Aber- ystwyth in the morning in two of the college racing boats to proceed to Monks Cave, a resort about...
Lifeboat Services
East Division Rescue in the surf SILVER MEDAL A CALL CAME THROUGH to Tyne Tees Coastguard at 0101 on the morning of Saturday April 15, 1986, that a disabled fishing vessel, the 60ft La Morlaye, with three men on board, was in danger of going...
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Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 5
IN treating of Mr. Beeching's Life-boat (in the last article on this subject) which ; was sent to Ramsgate, and which proved ; so successful, omission was made of the ' fact that in 1853 she underwent con-J siderable alterations, in...
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