LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Ben Venuto and Vanguard
DEC. 9TH. - ARBROATH, ANGUS. The two local fishing boats Ben Venuto and Vanguard had not returned from the fishing grounds by 3.25 P.M. A S.E. gale was blowing, with a very rough sea. At. 3.30 P.M the motor life-boat John and William Mudie...
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Fig. i.
Body Plan. Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1...
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The Duchess of Kent.
The Duchess of Kent, the new President of the Institution, was anxious to meet as many as possible of those who organise and carry on its work, and after the annual meeting on 8th. July a reception was held at the Savoy...
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Trapped in mud TWO YOUNG GIRLS, Mandy Warren and Katie Flowers, were walking near Benarth Point on Conwy Estuary on Saturday morning, January 19, when, at about 0915, they heard shouts for help in the distance and shots being fired. They ran...
Mountbatten of Burma
ADMIRAL OF THE FLEET the Earl Mountbatten of Burma, who was killed in his motor yacht while on holiday last August, will be remembered, as is his wife, the Countess Mountbatten, as a very good friend of the lifeboat...
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The S.S. Urlana and Thurland Castle
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT BARRA ISLAND SEPTEMBER 5TH. - BARRA ISLAND, AND STORNOWAY, HEBRIDES.
At 7 o’clock in the morning a message came from the coastguard that a vessel was ashore on Idrigill Point on the Isle of Skye, 40...
The S.S. Hylton
ALDEBURGH.—In response to messages by telephone received on the 15th February while a whole gale was blowing from S. by W., the Eeserve Life-boat, temporarily placed at this station, was launched at 10.30 P.M. Terrific seas were breaking on...
Four Brothers
ENGINE DISORDER Cromer, Norfolk. At 12.30 a.m. on 23rd December, 1963, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Haisbro' lightvessel had sighted red flares about two and a half miles to the southwest.
There...
Appledore- Tyne Class George Gibson
Appledore's new Tyne class lifeboat was named at a ceremony at the town's quay on 25 June 1988.
Major David Gibson, elder son of George Gibson, the donor after whom the boat is named, handed the boat over to Air... - View image in PDF
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