LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Front Cover
Front cover Shoreham lifeboatman Ian Cosham brings a small child to dry land during the terrible floods in Uckfield. For the full story see pages 14 & 16.
Photo © Steve Edwards, Shoreham lifeboat launcher.View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
Two stations celebrated their centen- aries in 1951: Lytham and New- biggin; and three in 1952: Cullercoats, Rhyl and Tenby.
A vellum was presented to each station by the Institution, signed by the Duchess of Kent as its...
Category: Articles
The Duke of Connaught's Appeal to the Army
Ix common with Their Majesties the King and Queen, and other members of the Royal Family, H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught has always been a warm sympathiser with the work of the Institution, and, in the midst of many national duties, he has...
Category: Articles
Torpedoed In a Heavy Gale
THE following letter speaks for itself:— Birmingham, December 31st, 1919.
DEAR SIRS, I have great pleasure in enclosing here- with £3 13$. for the funds of the Life-boat Institution, as a token of gratitude for the...
Category: Correspondence
Emile Francqui
APRIL 3RD - 4TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS. At 11.34 at night a message was received from the Carnoustie coastguard that a vessel was believed to be ashore on Bell Rock, and at midnight the motor life-boat Mona was launched. A strong N.E. wind...
Gika
Search and rescue A YACHT IN DISTRESS somewhere to the south west of South Stack Light was reported to the honorary secretary of Holyhead lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 0908 on Sunday September 4, 1977; her exact position was not known...
Bathing Solutions
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Category: Advertisement
Five Lives Rescued In the Floods. Unusual Service By the Whitby Life-Boat
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 106 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 77 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1931 62,735 Five Lives Rescued in the Floods.
Unusual...
Category: Services
The S.S. Terlings
SEAHAM, Co. DURHAM.—At 6.30 A.M.
on the 6th May the s.s. Terlings, of London, bound from Bochester for Seaham, in ballast, in approaching the harbour during a fog went too far to the southward, struck the rocks and filled....
Aneroid Barometers
Iltestratton of the Fisheriaaa's Aneroid Barometer as issued bj the National Life-boat Institution.
Its Dial or Face, which is enamelled, is five inches in diameter, being half an inch larger tifta the ordinary Mi-sized...
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