LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Terukuni Maru
NOV. 21ST. - WALTON AND FRINTON, ESSEX. At 12.5 2 P.M. the Japanese steamer Terukuni Maru, of Tokio, bound for London, was sunk by enemy action about one and a half miles E. of the north-east Gunfleet Buoy. A light easterly breeze was...
Listings
Operational changes in North East EnglandEvery five years each stretch of the UK and Irish coastlines undergoes a Coast Review. Senior RNLI operational personnel and trustees visit the lifeboat stations and assess whether the right class,...
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(Above Right) His Royal Highness Is Shown Lytham-St.Anne's Photographic Collection
(Above, right) His Royal Highness is shown Lytham-St Anne's photographic collection by (I to r) Coxswain Arthur Wignall, John Ogden, station honorary secretary, and Harry Cartmell, branch chairman.. - View image in PDF
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The Following Are Extracts from the General Rules of Management
THE FOLLOWING ARE EXTRACTS FROM THE GENERAL RULES OF MANAGEMENT :— " Each Life-boat to have a Coxswain Superintendent, with a fixed Annual Salary of £8.
" The Life-boat to be regularly taken afloat for...
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Fishing Boats
Gourdon, Kincardineshire. — On the morning of the 7th September the majority of the local fishing fleet put to sea. Later rain began to fall and the strong S.E. to E. breeze gradually increased until at noon half a gale was blowing. A heavy...
Cimbri
At about 7.30 A.M. on the 30th January the Second Coxswain of the Life-boat James Stevens No. 9 received a message stating that a schooner was ashore on the west end of the Nore Sands. As a strong E. by S. wind was blowing, with a rough sea,...
Four Attempts to Go Alongside Yawl
ON the morning of the 1st June, 1961, Mr. E. R. Copeman, the honorary sec- retary of the Teesmouth branch, was travelling with his wife on the coast road towards Redcar when his wife noticed a yacht close inshore in broken water. Mr. Copeman...
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Anniversaries Admiral Wid Graham - former RNLI Director, 80th birthday Bridlington lifeboat station - 200th anniversary Kyle of Lochalsh lifeboat station - 10th anniversary Appointments Martin Ashworth - Moelfre Deputy Launching Authority...
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October
Launches 33 Lives rescued 14
OCTOBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 8.50 at night a message was received from the Southern Railway Company that a small yacht had fired distress signals off the east pier. A...
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A School Lecture on the Life-Boats
THOSE who lecture on the Life-boat Service will, we think, be interested in the following account from a school- master at Willesden of a lecture which he gave after distributing the illustrated leaflet which has the chart of Life-boat...
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