LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Danish Fishing Vessel, J. N. Fibiger, of Hirtshals
OCTOBER 14TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
About 9.20 at night the life-boat watchman reported a vessel aground on the Binks, but she got off and steamed south-east only to stop on the Outer Binks. Half an hour later the port...
Branches of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, With Names of the Contributors
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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The S.S. Alice Bowater
At 10.3 p.m. on 30th March, 1968, the coastguard reported that the s.s. Alice Bowater had a sick man aboard suffering from acute abdominal pain. The vessel was then about 120 miles east of Spurn head.
Arrangements were made...
Falmouth: When the 50' Thames Class Lifeboat Rotary Service Was Lifted Out of the Water on July 29 1975 for Cleaning Off Anti-Fouling and the Replacing of All Cathodic Prot
Falmouth: When the 50' Thames class lifeboat Rotary Service was lifted out of the water on July 29, 1975, for cleaning off, anti-fouling and the replacing of all cathodic protection anodes, all the work was done free of charge, Falmouth... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
This Picture of a Life-Boatman and the R.N.L.I., Flag, Against a Sea Background, Is a Collage
This picture of a life-boatman and the R.N.LI, flag, against a sea background, is a collage made up of 17 different kinds of English postage stamps, and is the work of Capt. Colin Lowry, former honorary secretary and now chairman of the... - View image in PDF
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Why People Support the Life-Boats
WHY PEOPLE SUPPORT THE LIFE-BOATS The principal reason why people support the Royal National Life-boat Institution is that it saves lives irrespective of nationality, colour or creed. The second most important reason is that the R.N.L.I,...
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The S.S. Texa
IRVINE.—The Life-boat Busbie was launched at 1.30 A.M. on the 10th March, and proceeded to the assistance of the s.s. Texa, of Glasgow, bound from Glenarm for Irvine with limestone, which had stranded on the north side of the bar, at the...
Spirit
PAGe tItLe sPIRIt It’s a kind of magic Over 115 years after the first rattle of an RnLi collecting tin in manchester, Rory stamp discovers how young musicians are ensuring that the charity still strikes a chord in the city ‘there’s a great...
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The Admiralty Trawler Cape Barracouta
Ramsgate, Kent.—On the 7th October, 1939, two vessels were seen to be ashore on Goodwin Sands. One of them was the Admiralty trawler Cape Barracouta. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.45A.M. the motor life-boat...