LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Some Heroes of 1914
THE Life-boatmen who had been awarded the Gold and Silver Medals of the Institution in recognition of gallant services during 1914 were present at the Annual Meeting on the 21st April, and were introduced to the Chairman. In the case of...
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Life-Boat Sevices
FOUR BOATS AND CREWS SAVED IN deteriorating weather conditions on 8th November, 1971, the 70-foot steel life-boat Grace Paterson Ritchie, stationed at Kirkwall, Orkney, went to the aid of the Danish fishing vessel Clupea which had broken...
Category: Services
The S.S. Canada
Nov. 3RD. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
During the afternoon the S.S. Canada, of Copenhagen, bound for Hull, was badly holed by enemy action when twenty miles north-east of the Humber, and one of her holds filled with water....
The Life-Boat and Its Work
Paper read by Sir JOHN CAHEBON LAMB, C.B., C.M.G., V.P., Deputy-Chairman of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, before the Royal Society of Arts, on the 16th February, 1910. Colonel Sir FrrzRoY CLAYTON, K.C.V Colonel Sir FrrzRoY...
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F.E. 88
Dover, Kent. At 5.25 on the evening of the 13th of November, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a local fishing boat was mis- sing off Folkestone. When the life-boat Southern Africa put out at 6.3 it was low water....
From a Boy of Eight
THE following letter has come from a boy, eight years old, living in Derby- shire, with a postal order for eight shillings :— " DEAR SIR,—I had a sale and got 8s.
I love the sea.
" Yours truly,...
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Birthday Celebrations
The vast majority of supporters and readers of The Lifeboat will know by now that the RNLI celebrated its 175th anniversary on 4 March.
Each one of the 223 lifeboat stations in the UK and Republic of Ireland raised a...
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An American Tribute.
On March 2nd, 1941, the "New Yovk Times" published a leading aiticlt on the work of the British Life-boat Service: "The R.N.L.I." it said, "has been called the noblest of England's charitable societies. Though...
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Accounts of Services by Life-boats (4)
Launches 18. Lives rescued 30.
MAY 3RD. - CROMARTY. At 3 P.M. a message was received from the Seaforth Highlanders Depot at Fort George that the ferry boat Tim, running from Fort George to Chanory, with the depot band of...
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University Marine Limited
Photograph by courtesy of the Evening Argus, Brighton EMOVS ITS WORK On the Royal National Lifeboat Institution Inshore Rescue Boats Evinrude motors have to work hard.
Have to be ready for action all the time, reliable,...
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