LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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BROADSTAIRS.—The Life-boat Frances Forbes Barton was launched at 3 P.M. on the 12th January in a very rough sea, the wind blowing a whole gale from W.S.W.
veering to N.N.W., with rain squalls, a signal of distress being...
Fishing Boats (1)
Arbroath, Angus.—About 11.45 on the morning of the 27th of October, 1952, the coastguard reported that fishing boats were still at sea in deteriorating weather and that conditions at the harbour bar were dangerous. The life-boat Robert...
Tim Vincent Is Presented With a Memento of the Naming of Blue Peter V By Adam Simms and Caroline Mcvea.
Tim Vincent is presented with a memento of the naming of Blue Peter V by Adam Simms and Caroline McVea.. - View image in PDF
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 2 November show that so far during 1990: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 3,594 times (an average of more than 9 launches a day) More than 1,190 lives were saved (an average of nearly 3...
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Thor
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT ANGLE DECEMBER 18TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A gale was blowing from the south-west and a very rough sea was running. In the early evening a small Dutch ship, the motor vessel Thor, of Rotterdam,...
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‘THIS BRAVE OLD SEAMAN’
I thought you might be interested in the enclosed taken from The Seamen of the Downs by the Rev Thomas Treanor, c1890s.
‘… There is a Norse flavour...
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Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
THE Institution will again have a Christmas card and a pocket calendar.
The card will be a reproduction in colour of the picture below. It is a photograph of the Hastings life-boat returning from service and is reproduced...
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The Warriors of the Sea
LOUD thundered the breakers on the dark Atlantic shore, Ihe sky was mantled in the shroud of starless night, The lightning flash'd, and thunder roar'd, 'Midst the howling wind and hurricane's...
Category: Poetry
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Burton, O.B.E., R.E., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-Boat
No. 7. Major Herbert Edgar Button, O.B.E., RE., Hon. Superintendent of the Tynemouth Motor Life-boat.
No county in Great Britain has a finer record of Life-boat service than Northumberland. It was at Bamburgh, in...
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