LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
On Fire
The Cardiff steamer Porthcawl, from which the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston motor life-boat rescued twenty-five men on 14th September. - View image in PDF
This photograph was taken from the air. (See page 162.). - View image in PDF
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Boy Jim
On the morning of the 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a small motor fishing boat, south of Gorleston pier, was driving ashore and making distress signals. A fresh N.E. breeze was blowing, with a rough sea. The motor life-boat...
On Fire
The Marie Moller off Holyhead, 22nd March, 1937 (See opposite page.). - View image in PDF
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Atta Boy
Margate, Kent.—At 7.27 on the even- ing of the 29th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that three men in a boat were in difficulties off Foreness Point and were drifting out to sea. At 7.30 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil...
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...
Category: Articles
On Easter Sunday the Eight Young Ladies Shown Here, Dressed In R.N.L.I. Jerseys and Red Mini-Skirts, Walked from Tower Bridge to Hyde Park Corner
On Easter Sunday the eight young ladies shown here, dressed in R.N.L.I.
jerseys and red mini-skirts, walked from Tower Bridge to Hyde Park Corner— a distance of 20 miles—circumnavigating the city and West End. Organisations... - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND. — Two men returning from work early on the morning of the 15th March, 1890, saw the lights of a steamer ashore on the Bondicarr Beef. A strong S. wind was blowing, there was a heavy swell, and the weather I was hazy....
Category: Services
Fishermen and Fishing-Boats
Although this Journal is chiefly intended to circulate information respecting life-boats and other means of saving life from ship- wreck, we cannot overlook the fact that in many, if not in most cases, it is to fisher- men we must look to...
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People and Places
Lottery Saturday afternoon shoppers jostled with each other for the best view of the 39th lottery draw. The event took place at 3pm on Saturday, October 31 inside the Poole branch of Tesco's supermarket, by kind permission of branch...
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North Sunderland Lifeboat
North Sunderland lifeboat crew look on while Jane Sutherland, grand-daughter of Lady Sutherland, president of the ladies' guild, presents a salmon to Bill Steel of Tyne Tees Television who opened the annual lifeboat fete at Seahouses.... - View image in PDF
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