LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rescue By Twelve-year-old Boy
Ian Gillies, a twelve*-year-pld boy from Gourock, has been awarded an inscribe wrist watch for an act of exceptional gallantry. He has also received a franm letter of appreciation signed by the Chairman of the Institution, Captain 'th...
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The "London Journal" Life-Boat
THERE could probably be no better evidence afforded of the national importance of the work in which the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is engaged than the cordial and valuable co-operation afforded to it by the general press of this country;...
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Sea Ker, of Bideford
Clovelly, Devon-At 10.50 p.m. on 16th June, 1968, it was learnt that acabin cruiser from Bideford was fogbound in Barnstaple bay. Twenty minutes later the coastguard requested the assistance of the life-boat to search for the boat. The...
Brereton, of Liverpool
On the night of the 18th January the watchman reported flares and rockets in the neighbourhood of the Splough Rock, and the motor life-boat K.E.C.F.
was launched. As usual, Mr. W. J. B.
Moncas, the branch...
The RNLI Team That Went to Mozambique
The RNLI team that went to Mozambique in March last year helped to save thousands of lives. The new Rapid Reaction Unit will continue this vital lifesaving effort.. - View image in PDF
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Walmer Life-Boat Brings In Survivors of the Buccaboo
Walmer Life-Boat Brings In Survivors of the Buccaboo. - View image in PDF
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Photographs Which Capture the True Nature the Weather In Which Lifeboats Operate Are Rare
Photographs which capture the true nature of the weather in which lifeboats operate are rare - but this picture of the Portrush (Ireland Division) Arun Richard Evans (Civil Service No.39) on 13 February 1989 certainly does.
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The Duchess of Kent and Second Coxswain Jones
In the foreground (left to right) are Mr. Anthony Eden and the French Ambassador; behind the Duchess, is Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt (See page 163). - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat In the Lord Mayor's Show
The Life-boat "Robert and Catherine," late of Appledore, now of the Reserve Fleet at Poplar, in the Lord Mayor's Show of the 9th November, 1928, with Coxswain W. T. Hammond and members of the Walton-on-Naze Crew on... - View image in PDF
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The "George Hounsfield" To-Day
She was a self-righting Life-boat, 40 feet by 10 feet; served from 1870 to 1890 and rescued 99 lives.
She now lies on the beach at Aldeburgh, where she is used as a store. In frcnt of her are Tom Cable and John Pead, the... - View image in PDF
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