LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

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GORLESTON, SUFFOLK.

AT about 12.5 a.m., on the 30th September, 1899, the Coastguard on duty reported to the Coxswain of the Life-boat that a vessel was showing signals of distress off Great Yarmouth.

At...

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A new tvpe of lifeboat, known as the Oakley tvpe, came into the service of the Institution in the summer of 1958.

She is 37 feet in length and has a beach weight of 9.12 tons. She is, therefore, light enough to be...

On the 25 May 1996 a group from Flamborough, East Yorkshire, travelled to the Historical Dockyard, at Chatham to view the lifeboat collection.. - View image in PDF

THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 91 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 100 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to February 28th, 1931 62,533 The Life-boat Service in 1930.

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IN THE LAST JOURNAL was published a photograph of HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution, meeting the lifeboatmen who man RNLB Shoreline at Arbroath when His Royal Highness visited the station last May. On this page is another...