LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fine Service By the New Thurso Life-Boat
A FORTNIGHT after her Inaugural Cere- mony the new Thurso Motor Life-boat rescued her first lives.
On 28th September last, the 25,000- ton battle-ship H.M.S. Marlboroitgh was at anchor in Thurso Bay. She sent off a cutter...
Category: Services
The First Steam Life-Boat
THE recent notices in the press, both written and pictorial, of the latest production of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION—" the first steam Lifeboat "—have been so full, that we can quite imagine some of the Society's...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
RYE, SUSSEX. — At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was...
Category: Services
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNU family, past and present
Interrupted nuptials
When Littlestone-on-sea RNLI volunteers Matt and Heather Crittenden decided to hold their wedding ceremony at the...
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Mahe
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 6.59 p.m.
on 16th April, 1969, it was learnt that a two-masted schooner yacht had broken down about one mile south of Tol Pedn. The life-boat was requested to stand by. The yacht then resumed her...
The call of the sea
On 14 May 2007, yachtsman and powerboater Geoff Holt was leaving the Hamble river in Hampshire in his aptly named trimaran Freethinker. After months of planning, he had begun the public phase of climbing his ‘personal Everest’ – being the...
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Fig1: There Was Little Growth of Weeds Or Barnacles on Friendly Forester When She Was Hauled Out This Year But Herbert Larter District Surveyor Lifeboats (E) Recognises Th
Fig.1: There was little growth of weeds or Barnacles on Friendly Forester when she was hauled out this year, but Herbert Larter, district surveyor lifeboats (E), recognises the familiar marks left by questing mullet mouths.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty Kiso EDWARD VII. Double Legend : " Royal National Life-boat Institution.
Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII....
Category: Medals
July 31: Aberdeen Lifeboat the 54Ft Arun Bp Forties Helicopter In Tow Photograph By Courtesy of Rnas Lossiemouth
July 31: Aberdeen lifeboat, the 54ft Arun BP Forties, helicopter in tow. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of RNAS Lossiemouth. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sea, Thine Enemy
• The Sea, Thine Enemy by Captain Kenneth Langmaid, D.S.C., R.N. (Jarrolds, 355.) is in fact a comprehensive survey of coastal lights and life-boat service.
This is undoubtedly a book which may be read with profit and...
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