LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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ILB Dash TWO TEENAGE girls brought word to Rhossili Coastguard Station, at 6 p.m.
on July 2, 1973, that four of their friends were stranded on Worms Head.
A member of the Coastguard drove straight to the...
The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
AFFINITY WITH The Royal Bank Qf Scot,and p,c DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? y* The Rpy?l Bank If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland Plc
A FFTNFTT V WTT W AFFINITY WITH DO YOU USE A CREDIT CARD? If you do, or you are considering re-arranging your finances in any way you could be helping directly to fund the RNLI with every transaction you make.
Not only will...
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The Flamborough Motor Fishing Coble Pioneer (1)
NOVEMBER 12TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, AND BRIDLINGTON, YORKSHIRE. At 5.30 at night it was reported that the Flamborough motor fishing coble Pioneer, which had been due back at three o’clock, had not returned.
A strong...
S.S. Royal Crown
JANUARY 30TH. - LOWESTOFT, AND SOUTHWOLD, SUFFOLK. At 7.15 P.M. a message was received at Lowestoft from the coastguard that a boat belonging to the S.S. Royal Crown, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had come ashore eight miles south of Lowestoft, and...
The Institution and the War
WE have the pleasure of giving a list, brought up to date, of the Officers and members of the Staff, or of Permanent Crews, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION who have been called up or who have volunteered for service with His...
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The Late Adml Fitzroy, F.R.S.
ADMIRAL, FitzRoy, the skilful sailor, the travelled naturalist, the earnest Christian, and the best friend of the population which fringes our sea-girt isle, and the zealous coadjutor of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, has gone to his...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution During the First Six Months of 1875
ST. DAVID'S.—On the 1st January last the Life-boat Augusta, stationed at this headland, rendered good service to the schooner Amity, of Beaumauris, which, while on a voyage from Bangor to Swansea, became embayed in a dangerous position...
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Past and Present
100 years ago From The Life-Boat of 1896 In 1995 Dan Laoghaire received the first Trent class lifeboat in Ireland. The contrast between the sailing lifeboat involved in the 1895 Kingstown disaster recounted below and herl 995 high-tech...
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From the heart
In 2003 Chantal Carr weighed 20 stone. Just 4 years later she’d lost half her body weight, and went on to attempt to swim the Channel in aid of the RNLI
It took some straight talking from her...
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