LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Medallists of 1975: (L to R Back Row First) Coxswain Frank Bloom Walton and Frinton; Helmsman Michael Coates Whitby; Coxswain John Petit and Crew Member John R
Medallists of 1975: (I. to r., back row first) Coxswain Frank Bloom, Walton and Frinton; Helmsman Michael Coates, Whitby; Coxswain John Petit and Crew Member John Robilliard, St Peter Port: Second Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins,... - View image in PDF
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1031 Feet and 41 Feet
The SS. Queen Elizabeth and the new Sennen Cove motor life-boat which went to her station last July.. - View image in PDF
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1862
IN accordance with our annual custom for many years past, we again present our readers with a synopsis of the returns just made by the Board of Trade to Parliament, of the wrecks and casualties which have taken place on the coasts, and in...
Category: Articles
Lytham and Rhyl Life-Boats
The recent sad accidents at Lytham and at Rhyl, by the upsetting of the life-boats stationed at these two places, are so calculated to destroy confidence in all life-boat: among those unacquainted with the exact circumstances of the case,...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the April, May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
Launches 102. Lives rescued 193.
April Meeting.
Aberdeen.—During the very bad storms from 21st January to 1st Febru- ary the motor life-boat was launched three times, the pulling and sailing life- boat...
Category: Services
Search and Rescue at Sea
ALONG the top of the first page of the official instructions to H.M. Coast- guard the following words are written : " The swift emergencies of the sea call for prompt response ".
It is just that which has led to...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THE year 1903 has come and gone, and we are glad to be able to congratulate most cordially all the Life-boat Saturday workers throughout the United Kingdom on the almost unexpected success which accompanied their zealous and self- denying...
Category: Services
The Life-Boat Institution and the City of London
A PUBLIC meeting in furtherance of the objects of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was held on Wednesday afternoon, the 13th June last, in the Egyptian Hall at the Mansion House, by the special invitation of the Eight Hon. the LORD...
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End of a Life-Boat Band
THE Blackpool life-boat band, which was founded in 1884, and was then the only life-boat band in the world, has now been disbanded. The idea of forming a band was conceived at a time when Blackpool had not yet become a popular holiday resort...
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Viscount Younger, Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland, Presented Tracey Edwards and Lady Cooksey
This Autumn the Crew Training Appeal celebratedreaching the halfway point towards its target of £5m.. - View image in PDF
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