LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Second International Life-Boat Conference
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
IN February, 1823, Colonel Sir William Hillary, soldier, author, philanthropist and greatest of Life-boat men, issued his appeal to the nation, advocating the formation...
Category: Meetings
THE SALCOMBE LIFEBOAT DISASTER
Friday 27 October 1916 started with a rescue and ended in tragedy – one of the worst in RNLI history. It is a story of courage,
sacrifice and loss. 100 years on, a lifeboat town remembers the crew who never came home
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P.W. 125
APRIL 29TH. - NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.
At 3.15 P.M. the coastguard reported distress signals from a fishing boat which was rapidly drifting out to sea before a strong E.S.E. wind. The sea was choppy. The motor life-boat Richard...
The Poo
Weymouth, Dorset. At 10.35 p.m.
on I5th May, 1965, the coastguard informed the coxswain that red flares had been seen between Weymouth and Portland harbour. The coxswain informed a member of the inshore rescue scheme who...
Life-Boat Saturday and "Life-Boat Sunday." Recent Demonstrations
WE earnestly appeal to all interested in the Life-boat cause to do their utmost to establish or help to establish a " Life- boat Saturday" and a " Life-boat Sunday " in the neighbourhoods in which they reside. A good...
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An Aeroplane (46)
APRIL 20TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 1 P.M.
a message was received at Appledore from the Croyde coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea on the south side of Morte Bay, and at 1.10 P.M. the...
Elephants and beer goggles
Trying to persuade teenagers that water safety is cool isn’t easy but 20-year-old volunteer Tery Connor has it sussed …
‘I have a passion for working with young people and considerable...
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Rnli News
Blowing up a Storm The RNLI's Storm Force junior club will be known to a much wider audience now, following the naming of an InterCity 125 locomotive 'Storm Force' on Saturday 27 April.
The ceremony was held at...
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The Fundraisers
An eggs-tra special gift The fabulous Faberge-style egg created for the RNLI in Chichester by Ebony Jewellers in South Street has finally found a home.
Sothebys valued the egg at £20,000, an amount which the Worshipful...
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