LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Saving Drowning Persons By Swimming to Their Relief
1st. When you approach a drowning person, assure him, with a loud and firm voice, that he is safe.
2nd. Before jumping in to save him, divest yourself as far and as quickly as possible of all clothes, especially boots and...
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From An Original Idea by Henry Greathead
Jn Sunday, 15 March 1789 a ship, the Adventure of Newcastle, began the process which led to today's lifeboats.
Adventure was wrecked at the mouth of the Tyne while thousands of onlookers watched helplessly from the...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland
Harbour Account Up to 7.8% gross The Royal Bank will donate 0.25% of total balances to the RNLI at the end of each year, and If 2,000 accounts are opened over 2 years, we will donate a total of at least £50,000 towards a new...
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Campbeltown: the Dedication of the 52Ft Arun Walter and Margaret Couper Photograph By Courtesy of 'The Campbeltown Courier'
Campbeltown: The dedication of the 52ft Arun Walter and Margaret Couper. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of 'The Campbeltown Courier'. - View image in PDF
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John R Atterton Mbe Has Been Appointed Acting Director of the Institution By the Committee of Management
7d /i K. Anertim, MBE. /K/.V heen appointed Actiiif; Director of tin' Institution h the Committee of Management,. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Fane & Harvest Home
At 9 P.M. on the 24th December the Coastguard reported j that a vessel was ashore on Whitby I Rock. Coxswain Langlands at once.
summoned the Life-boat crew and pro- j ceeded to the vessel, which proved to be the s...
The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916. (Continued from "Life-Boat Journal," August, 1917, p. 198.) By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon. Secretary
THR Second Coxswain, who is also a harbour pilot, was put aboard with three men, and they tried to get the vessel* to the harbour, but the tide and wind set her into Dunwich Bight close to the shore ; at one time it looked like the barge...
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The Royal Bank of Scotland
The crew can do their job because people like you use a Lifeboats MasterCard, To save lives at sea our brave crews have to be well-trained and well-equipped.
This is why we need you, with a Lifeboats MasterCard, onboard....
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List of Successes In the Essay Competition
London District (County Council Area and Middlesex).
Name.
Age.
School.
William Bennett Freda Shine Thomas Gover .
Maureen Conway John...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PORTRUSH, Co. ANTRIM.—The schooner Ullen Myvanwy, of Beaumaris, bound from Runcorn for Ramelton, co. Donegal, with a cargo of salt, anchored in Skerries Roads, off Portrush on the 28th Feb., 1891.
On the 2nd March, a gale...
Category: Services