LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1903
THE British Public is much indebted to the BOARD OF TKADE for the carefully prepared tables and statistics which it provides year by year in connection with the shipping disasters which occur on or near the coasts of the United...
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Ninth International Life-Boat Conference
The ninth international life-boat con- ference was held in Edinburgh from 4th to 6th June, 1963. Apart from the British delegation there were repre- sentatives of sixteen nations present. Of the European countries there were delegations from...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 21 August 1992 show that so far during 1992: The RNLI's lifeboats have been launched 2,362 times (an average of more than 10 launches a day) 583 lives have been saved (an average of more...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 29 July 1993 show that so far during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 1,900 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) 401 lives have been saved (an average of nearly two a...
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Life-Boat Museum at Eastbourne
ON the 22nd March this year a life-boat museum was opened at Eastbourne.
The Institution has, at its head- quarters in London, a collection of life-boat pictures and models, and there have been at various times short...
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Karen
MOTHER REPORTS SONS MISSING IN BOAT Torbay, Devon. At 11.50 on the night of the 26th March, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the mother of two young men had reported that they had not returned home after leaving...
The Canadian Steamer Eaglescliffe Hall
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT SHERINGHAM OCTOBER 30TH - 31ST. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. At 7.47 in the evening of the 29th of October the Sheringham coastguard reported that a vessel off Cley, about five miles west of Sheringham, was showing a signal...
The Best Essay
BY ALFRED ROBINSON (12}), Warple Way Mixed School, Wandsworth.
Why I admire the Life-Boatman.
MOST of us have had the pleasure of a holiday by the sea during the summer, and probably have enjoyed the...
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An Aeroplane (2)
St. Peter Port, Guernsey. — 25th April, 1939. An aeroplane had been reported missing, but she had landed at Alderney.—Rewards, £4 13s. 6d..
A Naval Trawler
JANUARY 27TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ISLE OF ISLAY. A naval trawler had been reported damaged and sinking off Gigha Island, but the life-boat found nothing. - Rewards, £29 15s..