LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the London Tavern on Thursday the 17th day of March, 1859, The Right Hon. SIR JOHN S. PAKINGTON, Bart., First Lord of the Admiralty, in the Chair, The following...
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Notes and News
1924 will be remembered as one of the wettest years on record. But it was not a year of storms, although it ended with great gales all round the coast.
It was, in fact, a year much calmer than the average. It is such years...
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The Rescue of Drowning Persons
THE RESCUE OF DROWNING PERSONS.
THE summer of 1868 will long be remembered by the present generation in the British Isles as the most extraordinary within their recollection ; for what With the long continuance of almost...
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People and Places
Last bowman Ronald Chapman has been promoted to Second Coxswain of Skegness lifeboat.
This means that the historic position of bowman will no longer exist within the RNLI as he was the last lifeboatman to hold the post.<...
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Lifeboat Services
West Division January storm BRONZE MEDALS AT 1137 ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1988 the Blackpool station honorary secretary, Mr Rowland Darbyshire was alerted by Liverpool Coastguard MRSC that a small vessel had fired red flares 11/4 miles...
Category: Services
Then and Now... When a New Inshore Lifeboat Station Was Needed at Flamborough's South Landing the Old Disused Boathouse (Right)
Then and now... When a new inshore lifeboat station was needed at Flamborough's South Landing the old disused boathouse (right) was demolished to make way for the new (below), built in the same simple and rugged style to suit the... - View image in PDF
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Mrs Phyllis Duckworth,
MAY 1998 Mrs Phyllis Duckworth, former chairman and secretary of the Caversham branch. Mrs Duckworth was a member and chairman of the Reading and district branch for many years until 1979 when she founded the Caversham ladies guild which...
Category: Obituaries
The Corporation of Trinity-House, London
WE believe that it will be both interesting and instructive to the readers of the Life- Boat Journal generally to have a brief account of the origin, objects, and functions of the Trinity House, London, which is one of the most ancient and...
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Baby Emu Tries to Snatch Back the Cheque for £580 He and Rod Hull Have Just Handed Over to Ray Kipling Deputy Public Relations Officer Rnli at Bentalls Kingston-U
Baby Emu tries to snatch back the cheque for £580 he and Rod Hull have just handed over to Ray Kipling, deputy public relations officer, RNLI, at Bentalls, Kingston-upon- Thames. The money was raised by Emu's country-wide promotion... - View image in PDF
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Magic moments
They have helped Harry Potter out of a few scrapes on the big screen – but what real lifesaving antics have cinema’s favourite twins been getting up to?
Filmgoers have been under Harry Potter’s...
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