LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Museum at Eastbourne
ON the 22nd March this year a life-boat museum was opened at Eastbourne.
The Institution has, at its head- quarters in London, a collection of life-boat pictures and models, and there have been at various times short...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats
Plymouth, Devon.—The German Schooner Erna, belonging to Bremen, drove ashore on Drake's Island in Plymouth Sound on the night of the 21st February, during a S.S.E. gale which at times attained the violence of a hurricane. The vessel...
Category: Services
The Weather During the Year 1889
To the seaman the weather experienced during the year 1889 must be considered as exceptionally favourable, for, like its predecessors 1887 and 1888, storms were of very rare occurrence in the British Islands, and as a necessary consequence,...
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Services of Life-Boats
HAUXLEY, NORTHUMBERLAND.—On the 5th of January, 1854, the brig Earl of Newburgh, of Shields, coal laden, brought up in a sinking state in Coquet Roads, the wind blowing a gale from the eastward at the time. The danger to her crew being...
Category: Services
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MUSIC WHILE YOU WORK THE sighting of a man in distress on Culver Cliff near Minehead, Somerset, on 2nd July, 1972, led to a rescue by the local ILB. He was first seen standing on a small overhanging rock, about 50 feet up, waving a towel....
Marguerite (1)
TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...
A Sailing Surf Board
Capsize TWO BOYS, aged 17 and 15, who had set out from Cove Sailing Club on a 15ft sailing surf board capsized off Baron's Point, lower Loch Long, at about 1240 on Sunday April 20 and were unable to right their boat because water was get...
Birthday Celebrations
The vast majority of supporters and readers of The Lifeboat will know by now that the RNLI celebrated its 175th anniversary on 4 March.
Each one of the 223 lifeboat stations in the UK and Republic of Ireland raised a...
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Playing Pool at Fleetwood
It looks like baby spew...', explained instructor Dave Eccles.
He was of course talking about the fluid which can occur in the lungs of a casualty when a lot of sea water is ingested. I was soon learn that this...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 27th August, 1937.
PAID £13,874 lls. 7d. for the total charges of the Institution during the month, in- cluding rewards for services, payments for the construction of life-boats, life-boathouses and slipways,...
Category: Committee