LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Benefactors: "Not of An Age, But for All Time." Henry Greathead. [Born 1757. Died 1813]
IT is our national boast that Britannia rules the waves, and so it was only befitting that the honour of, inventing the Life-boat should fall to the lot of a Briton. Whether or not Henry Greathead was that particular Briton has been a matter...
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Fast Afloat Boat 3
ON TRIAL - FAST AFLOAT BOAT PROTOTYPE TAKES TO THE WATER The RNLI must always have an eye of sea rescue many years ahead. 0 latest design of Fast Afloat Boat (R is designed to achieve even highi retaining - and even imprc standards of I...
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United States Life-Saving Service
It appears from the Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1893, issued a few months since from the Government Printing Office at Washington, that there are now 243...
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Last word
'... in every way magnificent’
I was rescued by Lymington lifeboat crew on 15 July after my finger was severed. They arrived in only 7 minutes and were in every way magnificent. I lost my...
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Waitrose: Shop and vote
Do you shop online? Treat yourself to a grocery shop (delivery or collection) from Waitrose, and help raise funds for the RNLI.
From now until the end of November, the RNLI is one of three charities Waitrose’s online...
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Life on the Open Road
When Spring approaches and inshore lifeboats prepare for their busy period, George Dadson, RNLI truck driver, knows there is far more going on behind the scenes than may meet the public eye…George is responsible for ensuring the inflatables...
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Barometers for Life-Boat Stations
THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is about to place Barometers, wherever found practicable, at each of its life-boat stations round the coasts, in order that the seafaring population of the neighbourhood may be warned in time of a coming...
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Life-boats Lost
The Hythe, Kent, life-boat did not return from Dunkirk. The Tynemouth life-boat was destroyed in her house by a bomb. Three new life-boats were destroyed by bombs in the building-yard at Cowes. The life-boats at St.
Helier,...
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The Merchant Shipping Act, 1876
THERE can be few Englishmen who are not aware that during several years past a very uneasy feeling has pervaded the British mind as regards the general status of our "Mercantile Marine," alike as regards the vessels of which it is...
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The S.S. Jersey City
A telephone message was received from the Coastguard at 1.53 P.M. on the 6th January that the s.s. Jersey City, of Bideford, had broken down and was in distress ten miles off the Bishop Rock.
Preparations to launch the...