LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boat Service Boards to Be Hung In a Church
THE Life-boat Station at Pakefield, in Suffolk, which was established in 1840, was closed last year, and the Service Boards which hung in the Boat-house will find a permanent and honoured place in Pakefield Church, where a special service...
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Lassie
Arbroath, Angus. At nine o'clock on the evening of the 2nd of March, 1959, the fishing boat Bairns Pride left Arbroath to look for the fishing boat Lassie, which was overdue from the fishing grounds. At 9.50 she sent a radio message...
Life-Boat Crews. No. II
THE fishermen round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland play, as may naturally be supposed, the most important part in manning the fleet of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and it is of course to their co-operation that the...
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A Fishing Boat (21)
NOVEMBER 29TH. - TENBY, PEMBROKESHIRE.
A fishing boat had been reported drifting, but made fast to a buoy before the life-boat reached her. - Rewards, £27 1S. 6d..
Arbroath Lifeboat
Arbroath lifeboat crew welcome to their boathouse lifeboatmen from The Netherlands Royal North and South Lifeboat Society (front row) who attended a course at the Robert Gordons Institute of Technology Offshore Marine Rescue Training Centre... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Fraserburgh Inquiry
A FORMAL investigation under the Merchant Shipping Act of 1894 was held at the Sheriff Court House, Aberdeen, from 5th to 12th October, 1970, into the circumstances attending the capsizing of the Fraserburgh life-boat The Duchess of Kent...
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New Vice-President
Admiral Sir Angus Cunninghame Graham, K.B.B., C.B., has been elected a Vice-President of the Institution. He has been a member of the Committee of Management since 1953. In the same year he became a Vice-President of the Scottish Life-boat...
Category: Committee
The jammy Geordie
Robson Green’s acting, presenting and singing skills have earned him sparkling success, but he’ll never forget his rugged roots
I’m from Northumberland mining stock – my father,...
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Foam, of Wisbech
On the 23rd July, the yacht Foam, of Wisbeach, was observed in a very dangerous position, with the sea breaking over her, off this place. It was blowing a strong gale from the N.E. at I the time. The Licensed Victuallers life-boat was...
An Aeroplane (200)
DECEMBER 28TH. - BLACKPOOL, AND LYTHAM - ST. ANNE’S, LANCASHIRE.
A British aeroplane had crashed at night, but no trace of her could be found. - Rewards, Blackpool, £11 15s. ; Lytham-St. Anne’s, £14 Is....