LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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Maxim, of St. John's
DROGHEDA.—Shortly after midnight of the 25th September, the brigantine Maxim of St. John's, N.B., bound from Liverpool to St. John's, went ashore two miles north of Drogheda Bar. It was blowing hard at the time from E.S.E., with a...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 20 May 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 446 times (an average of 3 launches a day) 146 lives were saved (an average of one a day) Some 11 % of all...
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News from the Branches
Annual Meetings: Financial Branches and Guilds.
CHELTENHAM.—On 18th July, Mrs.
Richard Davies, Chairman, presiding.
The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...
Category: Branches
Champion Sparking Plug Co Ltd
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Mary Jane
Workington, Cumberland.—At 7.40 on the evening of the 23rd of January, 1955, a man reported that he had seen red Very lights off the entrance to the harbour. At 7.50 the life-boat Manchester and Salford XXIX put out. The sea was calm, there...
The Size of Fab 3 Has Allowed Space for a Special Survivors' Cabin Below Decks Additional Seating Is Also Provided at the Aft End of the Wheelhouse
The size of FAB 3 has allowed space for a special survivors' cabin below decks, additional seating is also provided at the aft end of the wheelhouse.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President— VICE-ADMIRAL His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G., F.R.S.
Chairman— THOMAS BARING, ESQ., M.P., V.P....
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Reviews
Famous Shipwrecks.
" Famous Shipwrecks." By Captain Frank H. Shaw. (Elkin, Mathews & Marrot, Ltd. 12s. &d. net.) THIS is a book which everyone interested in the Life-boat Service should read—an account of...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Robert Brown of Swanage, who has been coxswain since 1941. He was assistant mechanic from 1928 to 1934 and second coxswain from 1934 to 1941. During his period of service Swanage life-boats have...
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