LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Monkey business City of Derby branch is rather short of collectors, so was glad to welcome this new recruit at Grangecroft Garden Centre - where he helped to raise £360.
Any supporters who can help in the Derby area,...
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Annual Meeting
Important Notice.
Owing to the continued extraordinarily high cost of all printing, and the need for economy in view of the large capital expenditure with which the Institution is at present faced, THE LIFE-BOAT will not...
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A Raft
Home made raft TWO YOUTHS, aged 15 and 17 launched a home made raft from the slipway at Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, at about 1510 on Sunday June 10. 1979.
It was nearly high water and a moderate breeze was...
Mary, Rose, Elizabeth, Victoria, Charles and Jane Anwyl, etc
On the afternoon of Wednesday, the 15th November, while the wind was blowing freshfrom the S.S.E., fifteen vessels came to anchor in the bay, being unable to get round St. David's Head. Some were in the most exposed and dangerous part...
Minnie Flossie
OLOVKLLY, DBVOK.—The ketch Minnie Flossie, of MOford, while lying at anchor off Olovelly during a fresh gale of wind from the N.W., and squally weather, on the evening of the 2nd September, showed a signal of distress. The Life-boat Graham...
Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1872
CAPTAIN HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH, K.G., R.N., in the Chair.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:—(vide second...
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A Small Sailing Boat
Again, on the 12th July, two lads, in a small sailing-boat, were driven out to sea during a strong wind from the S.S.W., and being unable to return, they dropped anchor, and tied a cravat on an oar, as a signal to those, on shore, which...
Hitena
The brigantine Hitena, was observed with signals of distress flying and drifting towards the rocks off Brixham, during a heavy gale of wind on the 19th March. The City of Exeter life- boat was quickly manned and launched, pulled with a will...
Winter and War
EVEN if there had been no war the winter of 1939 to 1940 would have been one to try the endurance of the life-boat crews to the utmost. To the gales and high seas was added a cold so severe and so prolonged as scarcely to have been known...
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Safety at Sea With Pyrotechnics-Part 2 Distress Signals and Procedures
HAVING decided which are the correct distress signals to be carried according to the size of craft concerned and her particular marine activities (Schermuly's complete range of officially approved marine distress pyrotechnics was...
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