LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lights and Lighthouses. (Continued from Page 215.)
(Continued from page 215.) THERE remains to be considered the distribution of lights on a coast and the positions in which they should be placed.
It will be readily conceived that, important as it is to produce a brilliant...
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Heavy Weather Training In the USA By Lt Alan Tate Staff Officer Operations (Training)
AT THE MOUTH of the Columbia River on the state border between Oregon and Washington lies Cape Disappointment.
Here, where the great Pacific rollers meet the outrushing river as it disgorges its contents into the ocean, is...
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Java
The No. 1 Life-boat Bolion was launched at 12.30 A.M. on the llth April in response to distress signals from a vessel on the West Barnard Sands. On reaching the sands the tug Java, of London, was found stranded and the Life:boatmen were at...
20 Medals for Cromer & Gorleston.
The famous life-boat stations at Cromer and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston have won for two services in August and October 20 medals, 25 vellums and £234 in money awards. The first service was to six steamers wrecked close together on the...
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The Baby of the Fleet 25 Years on By Heather Deane Deputy Public Relations Officer
TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND LAUNCHES—an average of 1,000 a year and the lives of nearly 11,000 men, women and children saved. This is the proud record of the 16ft (4.88m) D class inflatable lifeboat, preparing to celebrate her silver jubilee in...
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Race to the rescue
Our lifesavers usually rescue one or a few people at a time – but in May they were called to over 80 swimmers struggling against a powerful tide …
It was a deceptively calm and sunny day on 26...
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Awards Made at the 1995 Annual Presentation of Awards
Awards made at the 1995 Annual Presentation of Awards See page 4 of this issue for a report of the Annual Meetings Since the last Annual Presentation of Awards Meeting the Committee of Management has awarded six Honorary Life Governorships,...
Category: Awards
Shake It All About
Sheringham lifeboat guild held their second very successful line dance at the Regal Assembly rooms in Sheringham on 4 April. For the people who don't know what a line dance is we are told by the branch press officer that it is a cross... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fundraisers
Gala brings history alive Two stars of the popular television series Heartbeat, helped draw the crowds at Whitby's lifeboat gala, over the weekend of the 29 and 30 July, when they performed a champagne launch on the town's restored...
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Annual Meeting
THE Ninety-fifth Annual General Meeting of THE ROY AL NATIONAL LIFE- BOAT INSTITUTION was held at Caxton Hall, Westminster, on Friday, 2nd May, 1919, at 4 P.M. The Right Hon.
the Lord Chancellor presided, and amongst those...
Category: Meetings