LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (53)
JULY 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL.
An unknown bomber was believed to have crashed in the sea as lights were seen on the water after she had passed, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £8 13s. 6d..
Merchant Royal, and American Steamer William B. Travis
JULY 3RD. - TORBAY, DEVON. During thick fog the British steamer Merchant Royal and the American steamer William B. Travis had collided. The life-boat could not find them and was recalled, when it was learned that an American ship was...
An Aeroplane (22)
JULY 13TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had crashed in the sea, but all its crew were lost and six bodies were picked up by fishing boats. - Rewards, £6 18s. (See St. Abbs, “Services by Shoreboats,” page 61.)...
A Fishing Boat (4)
JULY 3RD. - PETERHEAD, ABER-DEENSHIRE. A fishing boat had gone ashore, but her crew were landed by a motor boat. - Rewards, £5 14s. 6d.
(See Whinnyfold, “ Services by Shoreboats,” page 99.).
The Late Storm
M. MARIE-DAVY, who is intrusted with the Meteorological Department at the Observatory, Paris, has communicated a Paper to the Academy of Sciences on the great storm of the 2nd and 3rd of December. He confirms the statement that it was owing...
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Committee of Management
FOUR new members have been co-opted to the Committee of Management of the Institution. They are Captain R. E.
Cowell, C.B.E., R.D., R.N.R.; Mr. P.
Denham Christie; Field-Marshal Sir Francis Festing, G.C.B....
Category: Committee
RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE OF THE CHARITY
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
NO PEACE FOR NEWLY WEDS
‘Just another day being married to an RNLI coxswain,’ says newly-wed Trina Sawyer, whose big day with Eastbourne lifeboat Coxswain...
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The Centenary of the Institution
PLANS FOR ITS CELEBRATION.
We are now within four months of the end of our first century. The Institution was founded on 4th March, 1824, at a " Public Meeting of Noblemen, Gentlemen, Merchants, and others held at the...
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Air Bag Installation
BUILT TO SPECIFICATIONS probably not exceeded by any ship afloat; subjected to exhaustive commissioning trials; maintained with jealous care by coxswain, mechanic and crew; watched over by divisional inspector, district surveyor and engineer...
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The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXVII. BRIGHTON.— The Robert Bailees, 32 feet by 7} feet, 10 oars.
IT is not our intention here to enter into a description of so well known a town as Brighton, which has been so happily described as "London by the...
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