LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Yes I'D Do It All Again By Rosemarie Ide
IT WAS ONE of those glorious days. A day to be taken out and inspected and admired now and then in years to come.
It would make one feel warm and good all over again. A glad-to-be-alive day.
The sun was...
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Italian Medals for Cromer
THE Italian Government has awarded medals to the Cromer life-boat crew for their gallantry in rescuing thirty men from the steamer Monte Nevoso, of Genoa, in October, 1932. The steamer had stranded on the Haisborough Sands and had broken her...
Category: Medals
Five War-Time Veteran and Four Serving Lifeboatmen Pictured In Hyde Park During the 50th Anniversary Commemoration on 6 May 1995
Five war-time veteran and four serving lifeboatmen pictured in Hyde Park during the 50th anniversary commemoration on 6 May 1995. Back row: (left to right) Billy Burrell, Maurice Smith, John Miller, Mark Ford, Tony Bebbington and Albert... - View image in PDF
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Football
THE annual match for the " Baring Cup" was played between teams representing the Head Office and the Storeyard on 2nd April, on a ground kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co.
Ltd., at Charlton, Kent. The...
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Lifeboat Services
LIFEBOAT WORKS INSIDE SURF LINE TO SAVE FISHERMEN Skipper plucked to safety through wheelhouse window in 30ft seas and Force 9 gale Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat has been awarded the RNLI's silver medal for bravery following...
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Great Rail Journeys
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American Coastal Lifeboat Development: An English Contribution By William D Wilkinson
AS THE RNLI celebrates its 150th anniversary, it is appropriate to acknowledge the help it has given many lifesaving services throughout the world. This help has taken many forms, one of the most significant being in the area of coastal...
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Two Boats and Perseverance
Falmouth, Cornwall. At 7.45 on the evening of the 7th August, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that two small boats returning from the Helford regatta were in diffi- culties in Falmouth Bay. There was a strong easterly...
Joseph Ibbitson (Centre) Aboard the Padstow Lifeboat With Three of the Coastguards Who Rescued Him and Coxswain Trevor England (Right)
Joseph Ibbitson (centre) aboard the Padstow lifeboat with three of the coastguards who rescued him, and coxswain Trevor England (right). - View image in PDF
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