LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Birthplace of Life-Boats
Tins year South Shields, where the first life-boat was built in 1789, cele- brated its centenary as a county borough. As part of the celebrations the Mayor and Mayoress, and members of the Council, went out in the Tyne- mouth life-boat...
Category: Articles
Swedish Life-Boat Undergoing Trials
Swedish Life-Boat Undergoing Trials. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Museum at Whitby
A LIFE-BOAT museum was formally opened at Whitby on the 26th of July, 1958, by Lady Georgiana Starkey, daughter of Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management of the Institution. Whitby was the last station at which a pulling...
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Portpatrick Life-Boat In Harbour
Portpatrick Life-Boat In Harbour. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Converted Ship's life-Boat
Fleetwood, Lancashire. At 6.35 p.m.
on pth November, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that a converted ship's life-boat was three hours overdue with eight people on board, including three young children....
Plymouth Life-Boat In Harbour
Plymouth Life-Boat In Harbour. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
New Teesmouth Life-Boat Named
LADY CRATHORNE named the new Teesmouth life-boat Sarah Jane and James Season at a ceremony at the life-boat house on the 28th of May, 1960. The life-boat, which is one of the 47-feet Watson type, was pro- vided out of legacies from the late...
Category: Inaugurations
The Spanish Life-Boat Society
MADRID, Jane 5.—At its annual general meeting the Spanish Life-boat Society was able this year to say that since its founda- tion in 1880 it had established 67 local branches, many of them self-supporting, 30 stations provided with...
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