LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lady Launcher Passes Away
Lady launcher passes away It is with sadness that the Lifeboat reports the passing away of Dungeness ‘lady launcher’ Doris Tart (pictured above, front) on 30 April at Ashford’s William Harvey Hospital, aged 85.
Doris lived...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
WEXFORD.—At about 6 o'clock on the morning of the 18th October, 1889, the Life-boat Ethel Eveleen was launched, intelligence having been received that a vessel was aground on the Dogger Bank.
A strong gale was blowing...
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Magic moments
They have helped Harry Potter out of a few scrapes on the big screen – but what real lifesaving antics have cinema’s favourite twins been getting up to?
Filmgoers have been under Harry Potter’s...
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Aneroid Barometers
Iltestratton of the Fisheriaaa's Aneroid Barometer as issued bj the National Life-boat Institution.
Its Dial or Face, which is enamelled, is five inches in diameter, being half an inch larger tifta the ordinary Mi-sized...
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List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION TO THE CREWS OF ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CREWS, AND TO OTHER PERSONS, FROM THE IST JANUARY TO THE 31sT DECEMBER,...
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The Outer Dowsing Lightvessel
Hutnber, Yorkshire.—At 10.7 on the morning of the 23rd of October, 1955, the Spurn Point coastguard telephoned that a message had been received from the Superintendent of the Trinity House depot at Great Yarmouth that a member of the crew of...
The Institution's Expenditure at a Glance
How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was paid out in 1949.
£ s. d.
32 9 0 _ _ ___i— _ New Construction.
39 9 10 _» _M _ B« M.I __-...
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The S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp
NOVEMBER 2ND. - TORBAY, DEVON.
The officer of H.M. Customs at Brixham received a radio signal from the S.S. Belgique, of Antwerp, bound for Rio de Janeiro, that she had set her course to Torbay to land her second engineer...
Lifeboat Services
South West Division Among rocks A YACHT firing red flares near Green Island was reported by Police HQ at 0326 on Saturday September 3, 1983, to the deputy assistant harbour master at St Helier, who is also deputy launching authority of St...
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Great Rail Journeys
GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS Arctic Circle Express 15 DAY HOLIDAY TO SCANDINAVIA & THE ARCTIC CIRCLE Travel with the UK's leading specialist in holidays by rail on a magnificent 15-day tour of Norway and Sweden. A friendly and professional...
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