LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
October
Launches 33 Lives rescued 14
OCTOBER 3RD. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 8.50 at night a message was received from the Southern Railway Company that a small yacht had fired distress signals off the east pier. A...
Category: Services
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
Royal National Life-Boat Institution.
Patroness—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
President—THE BIGHT Hon. EARL PERCY, P.G.
THE COMMITTEE or MANAGEMENT have to state that, during...
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A Sailing Dinghy (1)
A LONG SEARCH IN FOG Filey, and Flamborough, Yorkshire.— At 8.35 in the evening of the 17th of August, 1947, the Filey coastguard reported that a sailing dinghy, in which two men had put out fishing at 2.0 in the afternoon, should have...
Top Far Left: the First RNLI-Built Waveney John F Kennedy
Top far left: The first RNLI-built Waveney John F Kennedy, based at Dun Laoghaire.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Irving Kbe Cb
OCTOBER 1990 RearAdmiral Sir Edmund Irving KBE CB, elected to the Committee of Management in 1965 (having previously served as an ex-officio member from 1960 to 1966 when Hydrographer of the Navy). Admiral Irving was appointed a...
Category: Obituaries
Left: Sean Marshall, Bronze Medal Winner
Left: Sean Marshall, bronze medal winner Photo: Daisy Grant-Lukas. - View image in PDF
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Shaken Not Stirred - Sean Connery Lookalike
Shaken Not Stirred- Sean Connery Lookalike. - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ARBROATH, FORFARSHIRE.—At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.
of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the...
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Fair Mistress
Selsey, Sussex - At 11.50 p.m. on 6th July, 1969, it was learnt that two of the crew of four of the yacht Fair Mistress were very ill and that assist-ance was required. The life-boat Charles Henry was launched at 12.20 a.m. on 7th July in a...
Services of Life-Boats
LYTHAM.—On the 13th December, 1859, the brigantine Robert and Henry, of Dundalk, ran ashore on the Horse Bank, at the entrance of the River Mersey; intelligence being conveyed to Lytham of the disaster, the Institution's life-boat at...
Category: Services