LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Radio Controlled Life-Boat
During the 'open day' arranged by the Port of Liverpool branch in aid of the R.N.L.I., an interesting demonstration was given in which a model life-boat aided a model trawler on the boating lake at Hoylake.
The...
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Warnford Tea
Drinking Tea Saves Lives! BOAT TEs BOAT! TEA TEA BAGS No, this is not a new medical discovery.
But it is true, because every time an 80-tea bag packet of Lifeboat Tea is sold, four pence is contributed to the Royal National...
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Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THE Annilal Meeting of this Institution wag held at Willis's Rooms on the 31st May. His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, President of the Society, In the Chttjlr; there were also present ft large number of the friends find supporters of...
Category: Meetings
The Ferries European Gateway and Speedlink (1)
Ferry collision HARWICH HARBOUR RADIO received a call at 2251 on Sunday December 19, 1982, from the outward bound roll-on roll-off ferry European Gateway reporting that she was in collision with the inward bound ferry Speedlink Vanguard in...
The Four-Masted Vessel Hougomont
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.—The gale of the 27th February, which is described as a " perfect hurricane," drove the Hougomont, a large four-masted vessel of 2,000 tons, ashore at Allonby, -when bound from San Francisco to Liverpool with a...
The Four-Masted Barqe Asnieres
In response to a message received from the Coastguard on the 2nd December, stating that a four-masted barque was ashore and in need of immediate assistance, the Life- boat Bob Newbon was launched. The vessel proved to be the Asnieres, of...
A lifesaving foundation
The RNLI has pledged to provide every all-weather lifeboat crew with a 25-knot lifeboat by 2019. But the links in our supply chain are increasing and the availability of lifeboat building expertise is unpredictable. Our...
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Suzanna D. and Trawler Speranza
Double call-out SHOREHAM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Newhaven lifeboat at 1634 on Sunday January 22,1984, that a trawler, Suzanna D had broadcast a MAYDAY. She was swamped and sinking two miles south west of Beachy Head and...
December
Launches 61. Lives rescued 79.
DECEMBER 1ST. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.
While the fishing fleet was out the northerly wind increased until it was blowing strongly, with squalls, bringing a rough sea, which...
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Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1952
THE first of the life-boat broadcasts in 1952 was in Children's Hour, on the 25th of January. It was in a series called " I'm Proud of My Father,' and the narrator was Miss May New- lands, daughter of Coxswain Duncan...
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