LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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by Campbell MacCallum The Mersey class lifeboat Her Majesty The Queen taking part in the Lord Mayor'sShowon 13 November 1993.
Among those aboard her are the BBC TV's 'Blue Peter' presenters and the young... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
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by Maggie Murray The recipients of the Medals for Gallantry presented at the 1995 Awards aboard Stornoway's new Severn class lifeboat, The Will, at a photocall held the previous day at St Katharine Dock.
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Boys and Girls of Newmarket Swimming Club Aged from Six Years Upwards Took Part In a Sponsored Swim During May In Aid of the Rnli As a Result Derek Blyth Swimming Club Instructor Hande
Boys and girls of Newmarket Swimming Club, aged from six years upwards, took part in a sponsored swim during May in aid of the RNLI. As a result Derek Blyth, swimming club instructor, handed over a cheque for £600 to Mrs Elizabeth... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
GET SWIMFIT
These days swimming lessons aren’t all about armbands or diving for bricks in your PJs. As the nights draw in, we asked swimming coach Ashley Jones to help us become confident open water swimmers by next summer
This time...
Category: Articles
United States Life-Saving Service
WE learn from the Annual Report of the United States Life-saving Service lately issued' that on the 30th of June, 1886, there were 211 stations, 165 being on the Atlantic, 38 on the La,kes, 7 on the Pacific, and 1 at the Falls of the...
Category: Articles
Ilfracombe Visitors' Book
IT should be of interest to Life-boat workers, particularly those connected with Stations at seaside resorts, to read the following summary of the visitors' book kept at the Ilfracombe Boat-house in the summer of last year. During the...
Category: Articles
The Rig Tender Seaforth Conqueror
Aground in a storm THE NOTORIOUS North Scroby Sands, off the Norfolk coast, near Great Yarmouth, claimed another victim on the night of November 18/19, 1986, when the rig tender Seaforth Conqueror ran aground there in a south-south-westerly...
The S.S. Ragna Gorthon
On the 26th September the s.s. Ragna Gorthon, of Helsingborg, bound for the Thames with a cargo of wood pulp, ran on the Kentish Knock sands about three miles N.W. of the light-vessel. A fresh to strong S.W. breeze was blowing, with a heavy...
The War Record Year By Year. The 3rd of September, 1939, to the 8th of May, 1945
Year 1939 Launches of Life-boats to ships in distress on account of the War Total launches "f Life-boats Lives Rescued by Life-boats Lives Rescued by Shore-boats r • Medals „ ive% , awarded to *X$ *«...
Category: Services
Margaret and Elizabeth
RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN.—On the 6th February, at about 9 P.M., while a whole gale was blowing from S.E. with a blinding snowstorm, a trawler entered the harbour and reported that she had passed a sunken schooner, the water being several feet...