LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
During the International Lifeboat Conference at Gothenburg the Duke of Atholl
During the International Lifeboat Conference at Gothenburg the Duke of Atholl, chairman of the Institution, presented to Captain Hans Hansson, chairman of the Swedish Lifeboat Service, the Institution's silver medal and a special vellum... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sarah Jane
Beaumaris, Anglesey - At 9.56 p.m.
on 21st September, 1969, the coastguard at Penmau informed the honorary secretary that a cabin cruiser was in difficulties at Moil-y- Don. At 10.30 the life-boat Field Marshal and Mrs....
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck. Appeal
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President—, His GRACE THE DUKE OF...
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A Swift Half!
Television personality Pam Rhodes and her daughter, Bethan, are pictured alongside a half-scale model of a Tyne class lifeboat which Hitchin branch displayed at Walsworth Festival alongside its souvenir stall.. - View image in PDF
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Gratefully Remembered
On 24th, September, 1939, just three weeks after war was declared, the Aldeburgh life-boat rescued the crew of 24 of a French steamer which had been torpedoed. The honorary secretary at Aldeburgh had a letter at the beginning of this year...
Category: Articles
The Panamanian Motor Vessel Revi
Cargo vessel sinks HUMBER COASTGUARD informed Superintendent Coxswain Brian Bevan of Humber lifeboat station at 2357 on Tuesday February 13 that the Panamanian motor vessel Revi was in distress 30 miles north east of Spurn Light...
The Life-Boat Service and the Fishing Fleets
The Prince of Wales's Tribute and Appeal.
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Grimsby on 19th July for the purpose of visiting the decks and opening a new bridge he made a reference to the close connexion between the...
Category: Articles
Ireland, of Liverpool
On the i afternoon of the 5th January, information reached this place that a large ship, with her foremast gone, was in distress 'in Car- digan Bay, about eight miles to the south- ward of Pencilan. The wind was blowing very strong at...
Day Star (1)
SOUTHWOLD AND DUNWICH, Onthemorningofthe27thDecember,1886, the schooner Day Star, of and for Ipswich, from Seaham, with coal, was driven on the shoal at Thorpeness, with both anchors down, and became a total wreck during a heavy gale of wind...
Book Corner
0 Rage of Sand: The Story of the Men who Built their Own Seaside Town (Ernest Benn, £2.25) is by Gabriel Harrison, a member of the Committee of Management of the R.N.L.I., and is a very readable account of the growth of St.
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