LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mersey makes her mark
Exmouth lifeboat volunteers received a Mersey class lifeboat in May as a replacement for their Trent. Although another all-weather lifeboat, the Margaret Jean’s shallower draught proved more suited to the location when, on 8 May, she...
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Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 50-61.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 163.
Abersoch, Carnarvon, 167. Orogbeda, Ireland, 256.
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A Celebration for Some of the Swimmers Who Successfully Completed a Relay Swim Across the Solent from Ryde to Southsea Castle It Took the Party of Children and Adults Two Hours and Six Minut
A celebration for some of the swimmers who successfully completed a relay swim across the Solent from Ryde to Southsea Castle. It took the party of children and adults two hours and six minutes to swim the five miles, and they raised... - View image in PDF
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A Profitable Partnership (For the Lifeboats) Was Entered Into When
A profitable partnership (for the lifeboats) was entered into when Esher branch joined forces with a local smallholder to sell fruit and vegetables as well as RNLI souvenirs at Esher Fair. The entire profit of over £100 went to the... - View image in PDF
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With Coxswain Thomas Cocking and Members of the St. Ives Crew
Behind the Duke are Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., Chairman of the Institution, and the Mayor of the City of Westminster. - View image in PDF
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Off Their Trolley!
A 'trolley dash' in the Co-op at St Mary's, Isle of Scilly raised £300 for the RNLI last December. Miss Vikki Nicholls collected approximately £80-worth of goods during her one-and-a-half minute dash round the store... - View image in PDF
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Ocean Spray
FOUR LIFE-BOATS IN SEARCH OF A YACHT Padstow, Cornwall, Clovelly, Appledore, and Dfracombe, Devon.—On the llth of November, 1947, the motor yacht Ocean Spray, with a crew of two men and a woman, ran«into very bad weather off the north...
Spurs, of Grimsby
JANUARY 20TH and 21ST. - ABERDEEN, ABERDEEN NORTH PIER LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS, AND ABERDEEN TORRY LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS. At 7.30 in the evening the steam trawler Spurs, of Grimsby, on her way to the fishing grounds, but trying to get into...
Life-Boat Services In March, April and May
DURING March, 1948, life-boats went out on service 30 times and rescued 10 lives.
AGROUND IN FOG Troon, Ayrshire.—There was a fog in the morning of the 4th of March, 1948, and at 10.30 a fisherman of Ayr telephoned that a...
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"Heroes of the Sea." Over a Thousand Pounds Made by a Life-Boat Film
Over a Thousand Pounds made by a Life-boat Film.
IN 1930 British International Pictures made a film called " The Lady from the Sea," in which the principal inci- dent was a life-boat rescue. Part of the scenes...
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