LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Notes of the Quarter
THE DUKE OF ATHOM-, chairman of the Institution, reported to the annual general meeting of governors on Tuesday morning. May 17, that during 1982 lifeboats launched 3.304 times, the highest number since the foundation of the RNLI, and saved...
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Men-Hir
FRENCH TRAWLER TAKEN IN TOW Galway Bay. At 8.45 on the morning of the 20th February, 1962, Valentia radio station informed the honorary secretary that a French fishing vessel with her trawl net entangled in her propeller needed help south of...
M.V. Cantonad
Storm search BRIXHAM COASTGUARD asked the honorary secretary of St Peter Port lifeboat station at 2030 on Thursday January 4 to put the lifeboat on stand by for MV Cantonad, a 2,200 ton Greek freighter with a crew of 16, reported listing...
The Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives (1)
LTNMOUTH AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON.— On the 19th March the Lizzie Morton, of St. Ives, encountered a heavy squall, when off Lynmouth, which carried away her foremast, bowsprit, and bulwarks; in a helpless state she subsequently drifted before a...
A Small Boat (1)
Maryport, Cumberland.—At 6.35 in the evening of the 12th of November, 1948, it was reported that the life-boat bowman had gone fishing to the north in a small boat and had not returned.
A strong, squally wind was blowing...
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Boy lost A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD BOY ran about a mile long Cromer beach and up cliff steps to the Coastguard lookout on Monday afternoon, August 28, 1978, to raise the alarm that his small brother, aged seven, had disappeared in the...
Shoreline's Bmw Car Competition Was Won By Squadron Leader P L Whitaker (I) the Car Was Presented to Him at Poole a Few Days After the Draw By Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston (R) a D
Shoreline's BMW car competition was won by Squadron Leader P. L. Whitaker (I.). The car was presented to him at Poole a few days after the draw by Vice- Admiral Sir Peter Compston (r.), a deputy chairman of the Committee of Management... - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Services. The Life-Boat Illustration
THE accompanying tabular statement clearly shows the important character of the services rendered by the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION.
It will be seen that during the year (1862) which has just closed,...
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Life-Boat Essay Competition
Presentation of Prizes in Greater London.
THIS year, for the first time, the prize for the best essay in Great Britain and Ireland was won by a pupil of a London school, Alfred Robinson, of Warple Way Mixed School,...
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