LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From "Roundabout Horses."
THE Institution has received from a fair-ground in North London a gift of £2 sent to it " for the life-boat orphans," from the " steam galloping roundabout horses.".
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Great Rail Journeys
Alpine Tour BY TRAIN FROM LONDON Travel with the UK's leading rail holiday specialists on this fabulous 15-day holiday through the Alps. A friendly and professional Tour Manager accompanies all departures so sit back, relax and enjoy the...
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Two Irish Rescues By Night. Wicklow and Dunmore East
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 153 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to March 31st, 1951 - 77,296 Two Irish Rescues by Night Wicklow and Dunmore East AT half-past...
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Readers Union (Maritime Book Society)
If you sail. build, buy. race or simply love boats — the Maritime Book Society is the unique source of valuable information that you need It's a selective and economical service made possible by the buying force of thousands of members,...
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July (1)
CRICCIETH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. At about 11.30 in the morning of the 26th March, 1941, a Wellington bomber crashed into the sea, between Criccieth Castle and Harlech. The weather was foggy, with a heavy swell. Two rowing boats, each manned by...
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The 100th Life-Boat
WHEN Messrs. J. Samuel White, the famous shipbuilders of Cowes, delivered the Aberdeen life-boat in June, 1951, they had completed their hundredth life-boat for the Institution.
Their life-boat work goes back over a hundred...
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Drinkers Go Over the Limit!
Pictured are (from left to right) Shepherd Neame director Euan Johnstone, Coxswain Peter Barker, Jonathan Neame and Chris Sandwell, helmsman of Margate's inshore lifeboat.. - View image in PDF
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Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part V: Behind the Scenes
ABOVE AND BELOW DECKS, the first prototype of the fast slipway lifeboat (FSB) is gradually taking shape in Fairey Marine's yard at Cowes. With some of the work progress is obvious; other jobs involve perhaps weeks of 'behind the...
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A Night on the Goodwin Sands
ON the 20th of April last a grievous disaster occurred on the Goodwin Sands, which resulted in the loss of a Norwegian brig, The Auguste Herman Francke, with six hands out of a crew of seven all told.
All day on the 20th a...
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Bonnie Lad
A N.N.E.
gale sprang up suddenly early in the morning of the 9th May, while the fishing coble Bonnie Lad, of Scarborough, was at sea. The Life-boat Queensbury was, therefore, launched and proceeded to the Castle foot,...