LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Ladies' Life-Boat Guild. H.R.H. The Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron
H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron.AT the end of 1923, H.R.H. the Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, who had already shown her personal interest in the Life-boat Service by becoming Pre- sident of the Kensington Branch on...
Category: Articles
Works of Peace. Life-Boat Services In 1869 and 1870
AMIDST wars and rumours of wars, whilst | the two leading nations of Western Europe are engaged in mortal strife—amidst the groans and cries of tens of thousands of wounded and dying men, and the tears and lamentations of countless numbers...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LIV. BULL BAY (Anglesey) The Curling, 34 feet by 7£ feet, 10 oars.
"READER, have you ever been at Ply- mouth?" asks the versatile Captain Fred- erick Marryatt in opening one of the happiest productions of...
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Brede
Introduced In 1982, the Brede, although an Intermediate class lifeboat rather than allweather, can generally operate in any conditions experienced at the stations to which it is allocated.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1954 - 78,633 Notes of the Quarter THE first of the major flag days of the...
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A Gold-Medal Service at Ballycotton
By Mr. Robert H. Mahony, Honorary Secretary of the Ballycotton Station.
ON Friday, 7th February, 1936, a gale from the south-east sprang up on the south coast of Ireland, with a very heavy sea. The gale increased until,...
Category: Services
The S.S. Goldstone and the S.S. Naranco (1)
Dover, and Dungeness, Kent. At 3 46 on the morning of the 23rd of August, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secretaries of both stations that the s.s. Goldstone of Panama had collided with the s.s. Naranco of Gijon, Spain,...
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WINTER 2015 LOTTERY RESULTS
Congratulations to Mrs M Croain from Hampshire, who
won the £5,000 first prize in our Winter Lifeboat Lottery.
The other winners were:
2ND PRIZE:...
Category: Articles
Wreck of the Steamer "Duke of Sutherland."
ON the 1st of April in the present year occurred one of those fearful wrecks which ever and anon startle even the inhabitants of these sea-girt islands, accustomed as they have been from time immemorial to the periodical sacrifice, by...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1888
Jan. 5.—Voted 21. 1 Os. to 15 ve men for rescuing, by means of lines from the shore, the crew of four men from the schooner Anne Knox, of Glasgow, which had dragged her anchors and stranded on the bench, at Douglas, Isle of Man, during; a...
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