LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Ramsey, Isle of Man.—Very early on the morning of the 21st January, 1938, the coastguard reported that a vessel in Ramsey bay, about five miles E.N.E. from Queen's Pier, was burning flares. A whole S.S.W. gale was blowing, with a very...
Three Pleasure Boats, the Sea Pearl, the Sea Otter and the Endeavour
Fog bound ON March 11 two pleasure boats, the Sea Pearl and the Sea Otter, w i t h fishing parties aboard were reported overdue in Ayr harbour.At 6.30 p.m. the Troon lifeboat Conncl Elizabeth Car gill slipped her moorings to make a search in...
Dutch Service to a British Steamer. 41 Lives Rescued from a Vessel of the Elder Dempster Line
T/ie following is an abbreviated version of a graphic account of a fine service to a British vessel which appears in De Reddingboot, the journal of the North and South Holland Life-saving Society, for last June. The three Life-boats engaged...
Category: Services
The Late Mrs. Williams, of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey
IT is our painful duty to announce the death, on the 25th of October last, of Mrs. WILLIAMS, the wife of the Rev. JAMES WILLIAMS, Rector of Llanfairynghornwy, Anglesey.
This highly estimable and benevolent lady not only...
Category: Obituaries
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated By Royal Charter.) FOUNDED 4TH MARCH, 1824.— SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Category: Advertisement
General Summary of 1867
Number of Lives rescued by Life-boats, in addition to 35 vessels saved by them . . . . . . . .
Number of Lives saved by Shore-boats, &c. . . . .
Amount of Pecuniary Rewards for saving Life during the...
Category: Annual Reports
The Motor Fishing Boats Endeavour, Pilot Me and Success
Whitby, Yorkshire.—The motor fishing boats Endeavour, Pilot Me and Success left harbour for the fishing grounds at about 4 A.M. on the 12th February, 1938. A few hours later the wind got up rapidly, and by 10 A.M.
a gale...
The Norwegian Motor Ship Oslo Fjord, and British Officer
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT TYNEMOUTH DECEMBER 1ST AND 8TH.-CULLERCOATS AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
At 8.50 in the morning the Cullercoats life-boat station received a message from the Tynemouth coastguard that a vessel had...
Rescue By the Mablethorpe Life-Boat. 28th November, 1912. By Charles Moss, Author of "Bible Angels," Etc
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Brave little Mablethorpe, Fair little Mablethorpe, Haven of rest for the young and the old; Where, in the summertime, Silver seas lazily Bipple o'er sands of a glittering gold.II.
England is proud...
Category: Poetry
Patrick Howarth: RNLI Public Relations Officer for More Than a Quarter of a Century
WHEREIN LIES the essence of good public relations? Who better to ask than Patrick Howarth, for more than a quarter of a century public relations officer of the RNLI? His answer is predictably clear-cut and to the point: 'First of all in...
Category: Articles