LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Radio-Telephony In Life-Boats
AN article by my predecessor on the use of wireless in life-boats appeared in the number of this journal for December, 1937. It was then eleven years since the Institution had begun its experiments with wireless by installing a...
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Life-Boat Wedding
IN 1957 Miss Christine Ford, who was then aged 15, became the youngest honorary secretary of a financial branch. The branch was Portslade in Sussex. Her parents are both enthusiastic supporters of the life-boat service and for many months... - View image in PDF
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Patrons and Staff of the Travellers Rest Public House
Bunk holiday fund raising activities raised £757 for the New Brighton lifeboat station. Patrons and staff of the Travellers Rest public house and Reflections on Marine Promenade, New Brighton, had an added treat when the inshore... - View image in PDF
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Innes Farquhar Cpt Eric Masson
Innes Farquhar, Cpt Eric Masson, honorary secretary of Aberdeen RNLI, Alex Carnie of Seagram UK and Scottish regional organiser David Richardson attend the Martell presentation at Blaikie's Quay.. - View image in PDF
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Valerie
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. At 7.29 p.m. on 2ist September, 1965, the coastguard reported that red flares had been seen in a position three miles southwest of Shoreham. The life-boat Dorothy and Philip Constant was launched at 7.38 in calm...
Life-Boat Medallists 1928-29
Coxswain Robinson, Second-Coxswain Nicholson and Motor Mechanic Scott, of New Brighton, Second- Coxswain Sim, of Fraserburgh, Coxswain Baker and Mr. Atkinson, Master of the tug, of Padstow, and Mr. Hugh MacKay, of Hilton,... - View image in PDF
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Foremost
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT ARBROATH by east of Arbroath, and the motor life- FEBRUARY 9TH. -ARBROATH, ANGUS. At 10.35 in the morning boat John and William Mudie was distress signals were heard south-east launched at once. It was very hazy. A...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PORTHDINLLAEN.—While a strong wind was blowing from the E.N.E., with heavy squalls of snow and a heavy sea, on the llth Jan. 1892, the schooner Rose, of Car- narvon, dragged her anchors while lying in Porthdinllaen Bay and went...
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At Her Renaming Ceremony In Tallin Just a Week Later (Below).
at her renaming ceremony in Tallin just I a week later (below).. - View image in PDF
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All In the Day's Work
LIFE-BOATS have other things to do besides the saving of life from shipwreck.
Among the islands off Scotland and Ireland their help is often asked, when rough weather makes impossible the use of ordinary boats. The most...
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