LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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JUNE 26TH. - PORTRUSH, CO. ANTRIM.
Flares probably washed overboard from R.A.F. launches had ignited when they struck rocks, and had been mistaken for distress signals. - Rewards, £10 2s..
RNLI In Action
Cruise liner in crisis Six lifeboats launched on 6 May 2006 to the help of The Calypso (pictured). The 135m liner and 708 passengers were 15 miles south of Beachy Head, East Sussex, when fire broke out. Tyne classes MaxAitken III from...
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A Pram Dinghy
Blown offshore AT MERSEA ISLAND in the early evening of Sunday September 11, 1983, although the water was smooth off Cooper's Beach, a north-easterly near gale, force 7, was blowing off the shore and the tide was ebbing. At 1724 Thames...
News from the Branches. 1st May to 31st July, 1937
Greater London.
Life-boat day was held throughout Greater London on 25th May. The amount raised was £5,323, an increase of £276 on 1936.
Presentation by Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the...
Category: Branches
New Inventions. Wooden Cone Shot to Life Apparatus
A VALUABLE addition has recently been made to MANBY'S Mortar Life-Apparatus, by the ingenuity of Captain K. B. MARTIN, the well-known Harbour-Master of Rams- gate. That apparatus having been supplied by the Commissioners of Ramsgate...
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Ben Haslett (R) a Shoreline Member and Steward of Guildford Corporation Club Arranged a Social Evening for the Rnll Last November the Resulting Cheque for £21
Ben Haslett (r.), a Shoreline member and steward of Guildford Corporation Club, arranged a social evening for the RNLl last November. The resulting cheque for £210 was presented to Sydney Gillingham (/.), assistant district organising... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 50-61.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 163.
Abersoch, Carnarvon, 167. Orogbeda, Ireland, 256.
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Coinin Ban
Family rescue An unusual family rescue began on 11 July 1991 when James Tyrrell, the brother of Arklow's second coxswain and who is also the station's honorary secretary set sail with another friend in his 18ft sailing dinghy Coinin...
Life-Boat Calendar for 1929
THE Institution is again issuing a Lifeboat Calendar for the forthcoming year. It feels that there is no better way of keeping the work of the Lifeboat Service continually before the public from the first day of the year to the last, and it...
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Lifeboat Services (1)
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire 54ft Arun ON 1050: January 8 Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: February 22 Aberystwyth, Dyfed C class: November 7 Alderney, Channel Islands Relief 44ft Waveney ON 1002: January 28 Amble, Northumberland 44ft Waveney ON...
Category: Services