LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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In this issue News Letters Feature Lifeboats on the Thames Lifeboats move into the big city with the establishment of four new stations on the River Thames Lifeboats in action Award-winning rescues - including an account of four people...
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Young Ian
Tenby, Pembrokeshire - At 4.7 p.m.
on 31st October, 1969, the coastguard reported that the m.f.v. Young Ian was in difficulties off Amroth.
The motor boat Minerva was going to the fishing vessel's...
Award for Bravest Act of Life-Saving In 1957
THE Maud Smith award for the bravest act of life-saving in 1957 has been won by Mr. William Morris, the motor mechanic of the Barmouth life-boat.
He wins the award for the rescue in his own motor launch of four swimmers who...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1893
Jan. 11.—Five men waded into the sea and saved the crew of three men from a fishing boat which had been capsized in a surf at Shering- ham, Norfolk—Reward, 11. 5s.
Jan. 11.—Four men put off in a boat and saved one of two...
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In Addition to the Fast Hatch Experimental Boat, the R.N.L.I. Is Experimenting With Another Rescue Craft
In addition to the fast Hatch experimental boat, the R. N.L.I, is experimenting with another rescue craft - a craft designed by Mr. J. A. McLachlan, M.R.I.N.A., who served on the staff of the Institution as chief draughtsman from 1948 to... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Left - the Flower Bed,
Left - this flower bed, in the shape of an Atlantic lifeboat, was created on a roundabout in Sheerness. The three dimensional display was painstakingly created by inmates of Standford Hill and E/mey prisons for the local ladies guild.... - View image in PDF
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Wetterfrosch im Glas (Weatherfrog in a glass), 1887.
Before forecasting was an established science, many mariners relied on the behaviour of a certain tree frog to predict storms. Needless to say, it wasn’t terribly reliable and, even today, Germans use wetterfrosch colloquially to refer... - View image in PDF
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Rescue Practice In Scotland
Largs inshore rescue boat on exercise. - View image in PDF
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This Stormy Nautical Window Display at Fiona's Fore Street Won First Prize In a Window Display Competition Organised By the Trowbridge Branch of the RNLI In March 196
This stormy nautical window display at Fiona's, Fore Street, won first prize in a window display competition organised by the Trowbridge branch of the R.N.L.I. in March, 1969.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs