LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 29 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 28 times and rescued 3 lives.
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF TRAWLER Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 5.15 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the...
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Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1795—1900. No. 2
AFTER the valuable work done by Lukin in 1807, in initiating the Norfolk and Suffolk type of Life-boat, there appears to have been a considerable period before any new type found a place on the coast. No doubt small variations from the...
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Douglas Bay To-Day. The Life-Boat House, and, Beyond It, the Fort Anne Hotel
Douglas Bay To-Day The Life-Boat House and Beyond It The Fort Anne Hotel. - View image in PDF
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, " L. C. Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
la prepared to establish and maintain a Life-boat Station on any part of the coast of the United Kingdom where it can be shown, from previous disasters, that a Life-boat is required. It is requisite that there should be a sufficient number...
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Services by Shore-Boats (7)
TORBAY, DEVON. At about 6 P.M. on the 12th June, 1939, a sailing dinghy capsized in Fishcombe Bay. The weather was fine with a N.W. breeze and an almost smooth sea.
The crew of three were seen clinging to the keel. The call...
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Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.
At 9 a.m. on 8th November, 1965, the Inspector of Irish Lights informed the honorary secretary that there was a sick keeper on the Tusker Rock lighthouse and requested that he be taken off....