LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
'A YEAR of intense activity and gratifying success for the lifeboat service" is the phrase used in the RNLI's report to describe the happenings in 1972. The facts certainly justify this. The total number of lives saved, which is...
Category: Articles
Spurn Head Lifeboat Station By Christopher R Elliott
WHEN i WORKED for a weekly newspaper in the late 1940s on the Grimsby/ Cleethorpes side of the Humber I used to dream of visiting Spurn Head on the Yorkshire side. Certainly, when viewed through one of the telescopes on the front on a clear...
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The Sailor's Medallion Reproduced on This Page—It Was Found on the Suffolk Coast—Is Inscribed 'For God and Our Sailors—Pray for Us'.
The sailor's medallion reproduced on this page—it was found on the Suffolk coast—is inscribed 'For God And Our Sailors—Pray For Us'.. - View image in PDF
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Boy Claude
The Life-boat Kentwell was launched during a moderate S.W. breeze and moderate sea on the 14th December, and saved the crew of four hands of the trawler Buy Claude, of Lowestoft, which had stranded on the north extension pier whilst outward...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1927
Persons Time of rescued from 1927. Launching. shipwreck.
Jan. 5. 9.30 a.m. Motor yawl Provider, of Holy Island. Holy Island No. 1 Life-boat escorted boat into harbour.
„ 19. 8.10 a.m. Boat of S.S. Bilton,...
Category: Services
Some Account of the Growth of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution's Fleet Since the Re-Organization of the Society In 1850. II. (1873-1885.)
IN the Life-boat Journal for November, 1895, the development of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION'S fleet is traced for the twenty-two years which elapsed between 1850, when the Society had got into regular working order, and...
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There Seemed to Be No End to the Ideas Devised for 'Operation Lifeboat' the Scouts' 'Year of the Lifeboat' Project to Raise £100000 to Pay for An Offshore Lifeboat (Top Left)
There seemed to be no end to the ideas devised for 'Operation Lifeboat', the Scouts' 'Year of the Lifeboat' project to raise H00,000 to pay for an offshore lifeboat. (Top left) Bristol South West District Cubs collected... - View image in PDF
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The Motor Fishing Boats Pilot Me II and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—During the morn- ing of the 8th of May, 1951, there was a strong northerly gale and a heavy swell off Whitby; and it was making the harbour bar very dangerous for the returning local motor fishing boats, Pilot Me II and...
Port Talbot
Crew Member Ron Jones, (c), of Port Talbot completed the Afan half marathon recently and thanks to the support of his friends collected £93 in sponsorship. Receiving the cheque is his station honorary secretary, David Aubrey, with (I)... - View image in PDF
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