LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sheringham Lifeboat Crew Member David Williams
SHERINGHAM LIFEBOAT Crew Member David Williams is pictured with his son Robert and daughter Caroline, who helped him in coming to the aid of a drowning man while on holiday in Minorca in September last year. Mr Alan Redhead, of Leeds, was... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Deterioration of Our Merchant Seamen
ENGLAND—that is to say, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland—is a great, a wealthy, a populous, and a powerful country. But it is likewise essentially a maritime one. If not maritime it would have been nothing; for without that...
Category: Articles
With courage, nothing is impossible
Thank you for your excellent response to our request for your help in selecting the words to include on the RNLI memorial sculpture. Many of you favoured one of the five published quotations, though we also received a good selection of new...
Category: Articles
Mizpah. The Danish Barque Aurora Borealis, of Rebe
On the morning of the 5th January, the wind blowing fresh from E.S.E. with thick fog, guns were heard at in- tervals of five minutes, apparently from the North Sand Head and Gull light-ships; and the life-boat Bradford and the harbour...
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Category: Advertisement
Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, Dec. 6, 1855. THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., in the Chair.' Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance, Correspondence, and Wreck and Reward Sub-Committees.
Read and...
Category: Committee
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, 1939, Meeting of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Cape Clear, Co. Cork.—On 24th • September, 1939, explosions were heard at sea about two o'clock in the afternoon. They came from the s.s.
Hazelside, of Newcastle, a timber-laden...
Category: Services
Days of generosity
Fundraisers in Liverpool, London and across Ireland are celebrating after raising lifesaving funds during two special events.
Mayday is Ireland's big RNLI fundraising event, held at the beginning of May. 2014 was the...
Category: Articles
The Oar
PROBABLY the most ancient mode of propelling boats through the water by hand labour was by means of oars of nearly the same shape, and worked in the same manner, as those now in use. And to all appearance there is no likelihood of a change,...
Category: Articles
Maritime Buoyage System A (1)
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF LIGHTHOUSE AUTHORITIES Maritime Buoyage System A A COMBINED CARDINAL AND LATERAL SYSTEM, RED TO PORT To be introduced in North West European and many other waters by stages, starting April 1977 FROM APRIL NEXT...
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