LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Value of a Life
The Cost of the Life-boat Service compared with the Value of the Lives Saved.
No one can calculate the full value of a life saved, or a life risked. But certain calculations can be made, and have been made, by Insurance...
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Passing the Baton On: George Davidson
Passing the baton on: George Davidson, DSM BEM (I) has recently retired after almost 34 years service as coxswain and coxswain/ mechanic of Kirkcudbright lifeboat. With him and his wife Ola are Joseph Sassoon (r), who has taken over as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Lights and Lighthouses. (Continued from Page 725.)
(Continued from page 725.) OF all the substances which the genius of man has enabled him to extract from the crude matter of the earth, and to appropriate to his own use, there is perhaps none so beautiful as glass. Whether we look at the...
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The S.S. Thorold
AU G U S T 2 2 N D . - D A V I D ’ S , P E M - BROKESHIRE. At 11.35 A.M. the coastguard reported a vessel in distress two miles westward of the Smalls Lighthouse. Permission to launch, was got from the naval authorities, and the motor...
The Humber Lightvessel
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 5.50 on the evening of the 16th of August, 1953, the Mablethorpe coastguard rang up to say that the Superintendent of Trinity House at Great Yarmouth had asked if the life-boat would land an injured man from the Humber...
On Board the Skegness Life-Boat
The sinking steam-drifter Dusty Miller, from which the life-boat rescued the crew of three, is on the right. On the left is a Dutch oil tanker. She gave the life-boat a lee.
From a photograph by the motor-mechanic, Percy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Annual Meetings Continued
Presentation of Awards As usual, the morning's Annual General Meet ing was followed in the afternoon by the Institution's Annual Presentation of Awards, both to voluntary workers and for gallantry.
Mr Acland opened...
Category: Meetings
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Patroness — HER ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCESS OF WALES.
Vice Patron His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE or WALES, E.G.
VlCE-ADMlRAL H.R.H. THE...
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Two Rowing Boats
APRIL 13TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 2.51 in the afternoon a message was received from the Torquay coastguard that a small rowing boat was waterlogged 100 yards S.W. of Orestone and that men were swimming in the water. The boat belonged to the...
Accidents to Life-Boats
A RECENT accident to one of our English fleet of Life-boats has once more enlisted the sympathies of the British people, and called forth their admiration of the humanity, courage, and endurance displayed by our sea-coast boatmen in their en...
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