LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke of Northumberland, K.G.
IN April 1959 H.M. the Queen appointed the Duke of Northumberland, who is the Treasurer of the Institution, Knight of the Most Noble Order of the Garter..
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Volesus, of Grimsby, and Lord Nelson
Injured crews THE HARBOUR MASTER of Bridlington, Yorkshire, informed the honorary secretary at 1320 on Friday, December 28, 1973, that the trawler VolesusofGrimsby had an injured man aboard. The relief lifeboat Calouste Giilbenkian was...
Signals of Distress and for Pilots
In our last number, under the head of " Signals of Distress," we inserted a new scheme of day and night signals for pilot- age and distress, proposed by the Board of Trade. We now give a copy of those signals as contained in a...
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Flowers All the Way a Well Dressing at the Village of Dore (Right) and (Below) a Model Lifeboat 'Floats'' on a Rough Breaking Sea of Grey and White Plants at Brentwood
Flowers all the way . . . a well dressing at the village of Dore (right), and (below) a model lifeboat 'floats'' on a rough, breaking sea of grey and white plants at Brentwood.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait of a Coxswain
Coxswain JohnW. Gerrard, of the Blackpool life-boat Maria Noble. Appointed second coxswain in 1955, Coxswain Gerrard, who became coxswain in 1965, joined the crew in 1935. Since he joined the crew, Blackpool life-boats have been launched... - View image in PDF
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Sapphire, of Glasgow (1)
Newhaven, and Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—Early in the morning of the 2nd December, 1937, the motor vessel Sapphire, of Glasgow, bound for Ghent, had trouble with her engine when some miles off the coast between Newhaven and Shoreham. The...
Lee Gunwale Under
Bridlington motor life-boat returning on 11th January after standing by fishing boats. - View image in PDF
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Index of Advertisers
Adlard Coles Ltd 553 Bolinders Company Ltd. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 547 Henry Browne & Son Ltd 540 Castrol Industrial Ltd. .. .. .. .. .. Inside back...
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Boydell's Patent Self-Laying Endless Railway
IN an article in this Number of our Journal, on Life-boat Carriages, we have explained the importance of providing as far as possible for the speedy transport of a life-boat along the shore; so that she might, on the occur- rence of a wreck,...
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Betsy, of Sunderland
On the night of 9th January, 1859, the schooner Betsy, of Sunderland, ran aground off Newbiggen Point, on the Northumberland Coast, the night being dark, and a strong sea setting in from the east at the time. On signals of distress being...