LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our Inland Branches. Bradford. Derivation—Brae, a Hill, and Ford
UNTIL the beginning of the present century Bradford may be described as a place of no importance, though supplied by nature with every requisite to make it what it has now become, a town of the first magnitude. It is situated in the West...
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RAF Officers Examining the Airborne Life-Boat on the Deck of the Danish Trawler Betty Fn 41 at Great Yarmouth In July 1943 the Trawler Crew Had Slashed the Inflated
R.A.F. officers examining the airborne life-boat on the deck of the Danish trawler Betty FN 41 at Great Yarmouth in July, 1943.
The trawler crew had slashed the inflated whale back bags at bow and stern to deflate them. The... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Swimming under the sky
Why are more and more swimmers shunning heated, chlorinated indoor swimming pools in favour of rivers, lakes and the sea?
Outdoor swimming has enjoyed a resurgence recently, whether people are bathing in backwaters, bays,...
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SERVICES: Exhausting Cliff Service
THK Barmouth, Merionethshire, IRB on 21st June, 1971, was requested to help in evacuating a badly injured woman who had fallen down cliff's at Friog. In view of the prevailing weather conditions the life-boat was ordered to be launched...
Category: Services
Two Rigid Inflatable Boats
D Class rescues man in shallow water and heavy breaking seasJohn Pearson, helmsman of Whitby's D class inshore lifeboat, has been awarded the RNLI's Bronze Medal for his seamanship and bravery following a service in conditions at the...
Bella Mattison
(Honorary Secretary, Cullercoats) EVERYWHERE in north-east England, and far beyond, "Bella, the Life-boat Lady "is known. Mrs. Bella Mattison is the nationally known character who epitomises the wives of fishermen everywhere, and...
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French Life-Boat Returns
In April, less than a month before the war ended, a French lifeboat which had served on the British coast for nearly four years, was returned to the French Service. She was the "Jean Charcot" of lie Molene, on the coast of Brittany...
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A Royal Reception
A reception was held at St. James's Palace on nth July, 1967, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day on which Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, became the Institution's President. The Committee of Management had voted Her...
Category: Meetings
The Gaff Cutter Jolie Brine
Help for Jolie Brise THE GAFF CUTTER Jolie Brine, on her way back from Oslo to Harwich on the second leg of the 1978 Tall Ships Race, made to put in to Lowestoft for repairs after two days of gales during which, due to rigging failure, she...
Modern Motor Life-Boats. Modern Motor Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Modern Motor Life-boats of the Royal National Life-boat Institution.
By ]. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A. (Blackie & Sons, Ltd. 5s. net.) THE author of this book is the head of the famous Clyde firm of yacht...
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