LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MAY 1 3TH. - ST. ABBS, BERWICKSHIRE.
The body of an airman had been seen floating in the sea and at 4.25 in the afternoon the motor life-boat Annie Ronald and Isabella Forrest was launched. A moderate E.N.E. wind was...
Flora, Minnie, Silver Line, and Star of Hope
JANUARY 4TH. - RUNSWICK, YORK.
SHIRE. The motor life-boat Robert Patton - The Always Ready was launched at 1 P.M in an E.S.E. wind with a heavy sea, as the Staithes fishing fleet was out and there would be considerable...
American Airmen's Gratitude
In sending the Institution £12 the commanding officer of a squadron of the American Air Force writes: "The fine work being accomplished by the men in the Life-boat Service, has on several occasions been brought to my personal...
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Round the clock
The Operations Room is hidden away at the top of the charity’s Headquarters building, but it is the nerve centre of the whole RNLI
Until refurbishment in 2008, the walls of this unusual office were lined with whiteboards...
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Louis Fourteenth, of Dunkirk
On the night of the 24th November the barque Louis Fourteenth, of Dunkirk, parted her cables in Dungeness Roads, and afterwards became a total wreck, on Romney Hoy, during a strong gale of wind from the S.S.E., with heavy rain. The New...
February (1)
FEBRUARY MEETING CRICCIETH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. Shortly before 6 in the evening of the 6th January, 1942, it became known that an Anson trainer aeroplane had come down in the sea in Tremadoc Ray. A light northerly wind was blowing, with a...
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SEPT. 5TH. - ST. HELIER, JERSEY. It was reported shortly after eleven at night that Verey lights had been seen. The life-boat put out, with Lieut.-Commander T. Le B. Pirouet, the honorary secretary, on board. She made a wide search, but as...
Hopper No. 2, of Preston (1)
NOVEMBER 16TH - 17TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT, KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE, AND MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND. At 8.45 in the evening of November 16th the Kirkcudbright life-boat Morison Watson was launched to the help of Hopper No. 2, of Preston, which was reported...
A Rubber Dinghy from an Aeroplane
NOVEMBER 16TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
A rubber dinghy from a German aeroplane had been sighted, with at least three men on board, but nothing could be found. - Rewards, £36 12st
NOVEMBER 17TH. - CLACTON...
Anchors: Old Forms and Recent Developments
By Captain ANTHONY S. THOMSON, C.B., Elder Brother of Trinity House, Commander E.N.R.
Reprinted from the " Journal of tJie Royal United Service Institution," by permission.
There is little...
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