LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
It appears from the Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1893, issued a few months since from the Government Printing Office at Washington, that there are now 243...
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The Life-Boat Service In 1933
ALTHOUGH 1933 was remarkable for having one of the longest and most settled summers on record, the number of lives rescued from shipwreck round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland was the largest for five years. It was 406. Of this total...
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The Life-Boat Service In 1935. The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years
The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years.
THE year 1935 was for the life-boat service the busiest for nineteen years.
There were 378 launches of life-boats to vessels in distress. To find a larger number one...
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A Silver Medal Service at Flamborough
ON the night of 2nd March, 1937, the Grimsby steam trawler, Lord Ernie, bound for Grimsby from the White Sea, with a crew of fifteen men, went ashore under Bempton Cliffs, north of Flamborough Head. The harbour- master at Bridlington picked...
Category: Services
Al Kwather I
Arduous service for two lifeboats called to Ro-Ro ferry in severe weatherCoxswain David Kennett of Yarmouth lifeboat has been awarded the Institution's Bronze medal for gallantry for the rescue of two men from a merchant vessel in winds...
Two Dinghies (2)
Seven lifeboat stations involved in 21 hour search for missing anglersA complex service on 14 April 1991 involved all seven lifeboat stations from Dover to Newhaven, lasted 21 hours and involved searching of an area of 3,400 square miles for...
Past and Present
Years Ago The following article appeared in the March, 1937 issue of THE LIFEBOAT: Fifty-two Lives Rescued.
A Bronze-Medal Service at Torbay.
Early in the morning of 23rd January the 4,000-ton steamer...
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John Chapman: Honorary Secretary of the Civil Service and Post Office Lifeboat Fund
'A one-eyed, cantankerous and troublesome fellow'1: thus, leaning back in his chair, pipe in hand and smiling happily, does John Chapman describe himself.
But the smile belies the words, for it is the smile of a man...
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Phillip’s Defence Unit No.1 and H.M. Trawler Almondine
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT THE HUMBER JANUARY 6TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 7.57 in the evening the station received a request from the extended defence officer for the life-boat to go to the help of Phillip’s defence unit No. l*, which was...
Services of the Life-Boats
Newhaven, Sussex.—At 3.10 P.M. on the 30th August a message was received reporting that a Government transport had been in collision off Rottingdean, i and was in" a sinking condition. A light S. W. breeze was blowing at the time and |...
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