LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
To the Help of the Invasion Port
Several life-boats have been to the help of sections of the great invasion port, built at Arroraanches on the coast of Normandy, when they were being towed to Fiance, Dungeness took out a relief crew and food to a "phoenix", or...
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A Parachute
SEPTEMBER 2ND. - HASTINGS, SUSSEX.
At 9.58 in the morning the coast-guardreported that a parachute had been seen to drop twelve miles to the S.W., and at 10.23 the motor life-boat Cyril and Lilian Bishop was launched....
President names first Irish Tamar
President Mary McAleese named Ireland’s first Tamar class lifeboat at Kilmore Quay on 15 June.
The lifeboat was named Killarney, and was funded with the legacy of Mrs Mary Weeks from Surrey, who died...
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Two Sisters
JANUARY 5TH AND 6TH. - NEWBIGGIN, AND NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 5.5 P.M. the coast-guard reported to the Newbiggin station that the sixteen-feet fishing boat Two Sisters, of Newbiggin, had not returned. An...
Duke of Westminster
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...
Centenary of Life-Boat Stations. Presentation of Vellums Signed By the Prince of Wales
Blyth, Northumberland.
THE Blyth Life-boat Station was established in 1826, when the Newcastle Branch Association applied to the Institution for a Life-boat, and the Station was taken over by the Institution in 1866. It has...
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Life-Boat Conferences
North Eastern and Irish Free State Districts.
A CONFERENCE of Honorary Workers in the North Eastern District was held at Bridlington on 18th September last. Representatives from thirty-six Branches and Guilds were present...
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Heron
St. Helier, Jersey. At 9.30 on the evening of the 16th September, 1961, the harbour office informed the honor- ary secretary that the motor vessel Heron had struck the Paternoster Reef and was sinking fast. A moderate south-south-westerly...
Past and Present
50 years ago From THE LIFE-BOAT WAR BULLETIN No. 1, September 1940 SUSPENSION OF THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL Owing to the need for the strictest economy in the use of paper the Institution's journal The Lifeboat" stopped publication after...
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Great Rail Journeys
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