LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
1969: Disaster at Longhope
A close-knit Orkney island remembers the courage and sacrifice of its lifeboat crew who lost their lives 50 years ago
A south-easterly gale had been pounding Scotland’s coast for days, heavy seas forcing the closure of...
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Coxswain Dave Kennett Takes the Relief Arun Class Margaret Russell Fraser Across Christchurch Bay Conditions In the Area Were Far Worse During the Bronze Me
Coxswain Dave Kennett takes the Relief Arun class Margaret Russell Fraser across Christchurch Bay. - View image in PDF
Conditions in the area were far worse during the Bronze medal service. (Photo Malory Maltby). - View image in PDF
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SEPTEMBER 5TH. - YOUGHAL, CO. CORK. The honorary secretary heard a shout for help from a man swimming a long way from the shore in heavy breakers, and the motor life-boat Laurana Sarah Blunt was launched at 1.27 P.M. When she reached the...
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
SATURDAY, 18th March, 1893.
The Annual General Meeting of the friends and supporters of the ROYAL NATIONAL LITE- BOAT INSTITUTION took place this day at St.
Martin's Town Hall, Charing Cross Road,...
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List of the Rewards for Saving Life from Wrecks, Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
GOD HELP OTIS MEW AT SEA.
FOR SAVING LIFE FROM WRECKS, VOTED BY THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, TO THE CREW? J' ITS LIFE-BOATS, TO SHORE AND FISHING-BOATS' CHEWS, AND OTHElTrEr.SONS, . ROM THE 1ST JANUARY...
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Modern Motor Life-Boats: Mr Barnett's Book
IN the last issue of The Life-boat a review was published of Modern Motor Life-boa's of the Institution, by Mr. J. R. Barnett, O.B.E., M.Inst.N.A., who has been the Institution's con- sulting naval architect for the past twenty-eight...
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An Aeroplane (66)
AUGUST 7TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
At 5.20 in the morning the lifeboat watchman saw a large bombing aeroplane come down on fire near the gate vessel.The sea was ablaze with burning petrol. The coxswain rang up the Royal...
But I Know a Man Who Does
A new way of dealing with breakdowns! Local staff members of the Automobile Association and their wives took up the strain before setting out from Lisburn to Belfast on their sponsored lorry pull in aid of the RNLI. (Photo Belfast Telegraph)... - View image in PDF
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