LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Hundred Years Ago
A new life-boat has been recently stationed at Moelfre, a fishing village, on the north-eastern coast of the island of Anglesey, in lieu of the former life- boat stationed there, which has been removed to replace a worn-out boat at the...
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The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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List of Gifts and Bequests Having Special Conditions Attached to Them Appropriated By the Committee In 1907
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A Naval Officer's Gratitude
AT six o'clock in the morning on the 5th of December, 1947, the Bembridge motor life-boat, Jesse Lumb, went out to the help of a vessel firing signals of distress about four miles south-east of St. Catherine's Point. A gale was...
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‘HE SAVED HER FROM DISGRACE’
Janet Gleeson’s well researched biography of our founder, Sir William Hillary, The Lifeboat Baronet revealed vital new information that removes a slur on the great...
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May
Launches 32. Lives rescued 24.
MAY 3RD. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.
WEXFORD. During the afternoon the coxswain was watching the Wexford pilot boat off Wexford Bar, apparently waiting for the tide. A N.N.E....
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Notes of the Quarter
ONE lesson which has emerged from the large deficit incurred last year is that the R.N.L.I. not only needs more money; it needs money from new sources. The work of the voluntary branches will always be the mainstay of the Institution's...
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Relief Brede:
Relief Brede: RNLB Enid of Yorkshire, a 33ft Brede for the RNLI's relief fleet, after her naming in Bridlington Harbour on June 22. photograph by courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Esbo (1)
Barrow, Lancashire ; Maryport, Cumberland; Ramsey, and Douglas, Isle of Man, October 19th.—On the 18th October the s.s. Esbo, of Helsingfors, left Preston in ballast for Finland. Bad weather was encountered, and the Esbo got into...
An Aeroplane and H.M.S.. Patia
APRIL 28TH. - BOULMER, AND AMBLE, NORTHUMBERLAND. On the night of Sunday, 27th April, it was learned at Boulmer that a German aeroplane had attacked a naval vessel and that the aeroplane had been brought down in flames. The coxswain and...