LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
"The Merchant Shipping Bill of 1869." (Second Article.)
IN our last Number we gave a summary of this most important Bill, which we trust will be consummated as the " Merchant Shipping Act, 1870," in the next Session of Parliament.
We likewise commented on those...
Category: Articles
Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-boat Saturday season is now in full swing and all over the country the various Committees and Ladies' Auxiliaries which have been organised for helping on the movement are hard at work. During the last few months a slight...
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Old Life-Boats
IT is one of the unvarying rules of the Institution that the materiel of the Service shall be as perfect as it can be made. Only the best materials are used for the Life-boats and their gear; and everything is done, by careful andfrequent...
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Groves & Guttridge Ltd
SINCE 1931 LIFE-BOATS HAVE BEEN BUILT FOR THE RNLI BY GROVES AND GUTTRIDGE EAST COWES ISLE OF WIGHT Tel: Cowes 2561 27.
Category: Advertisement
The Austrian Schooner Voador Du Vouga
On the 20th February the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition.
The Austrian schooner Voador du Fo«^a,with a cargo of Indian corn and figs, was driven ashore in Tramore Bay, in a S.W. gale, when...
The Life-Saving Apparatus Ready for Action
On the left is a line-throwing gun, mounted on a [carnage. The man next to it is carrying a spare line and projectile. On the right is a cliff ladder.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Actuosity
— On the night of the 21st October the Royal Naval Shore Signal Station at Nells Point telephoned that a vessel was ashore at Colhugh Point, and the motor life-boat Prince David was launched at 10.50 p.m. A moderate to strong S.S.W. breeze...
Ava
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 7.40 Ott the evening of the 19th of April, 1957^ the coastguard telephoned to say ft German tanker had reported a small vessel drifting near the East Shoebury buoy. At 8.10 the life-boat Greater London II (Civil...
Vintage Occasion
Vintage occasion The Belton and O'Neill families from Oxted, Surrey have entered the Beaulieu and Weymouth vintage car rally for the last six years. This is put on by the Wimborne branch of the RNLI and organised by the National... - View image in PDF
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La Francoise (1)
French trawlermen saved IN THE WAKE OF the hurricane which swept across South East England in the early hours of October 16, 1987, many of the boats berthed at Newhaven Harbour—ripped from their moorings in the 90-knot winds—had been blown...