LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Our "Life-Boat Saturday" Fund
BY the time this article reaches the readers of the Life-boat Journal, the " Life- boat Saturday " season for the year 1896 will be practically over, so that we are in a position to gauge pretty accurately the advancement which has...
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Kinkade's Village Christmas
If oli ill) litd and Breukfiut i* approximately 6 '/.- inches high and tomes with A I Kl 1 figurine nl I In • mas Kinkade atnl hi* wife Ninette The serene vision ot renowned Pointer of Light I ho mas Kinkadc transports you to this...
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Lifeboat Services from Page 157
and Coxswain Jack headed out towards Bell Rock. A few minutes later, when clear of the bar, the coxswain handed over to the second coxswain, who had injured his ankle and, as he was unable to get an answer on the intercom, went below to...
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THE YEARS OF THEIR LIVES
Recognising our people’s achievements – as well as reporting our progress – has always been at the heart of the RNLI’s annual meetings. But how we do that has changed with the times, and is about to change again …
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Rescue 50 Miles Inland!
At 0815 on Good Friday. 10 April 1998, Weston super-Mare and Penarth lifeboat stations received information from RNLI headquarters that urgent assistance was requested due to the severe flooding in the South Midlands. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Noreg
Ramsey, Isle of Man.—On the morn- ing of the 5th of February, 1948, the Swedish steamer Noreg, of Gothenburg, bound with ore from Spain to Silloth, was at anchor one and a half miles east-north-east of Ramsey. She sig- nalled that she was in...
River Spey
Valentia, Co. Kerry.—At 6.10 on the morning of the 28th of February, 1954, the Valentia radio station reported that the trawler River Spey, of Milford Haven, which had a crew of twelve, was leaking badly and needed help fifteen miles...
The Minesweeper M.L.P. 2593
Portpatrick, Wigtownshire.—At 1.27 early on the morning of the 30th of July, 1956, the Senior Naval Officer, Northern Ireland, asked if the life-boat would stand by a motor minesweeper which had hove to in bad weather three miles...
Fishing Cobles (1)
Filey, Yorkshire. At 2.55 on the afternoon of the 4th of February, 1958, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that there were six local fishing cobles at sea, and as weather conditions were bad it had become very dangerous for boats...
Elm Grove
Buckie, Banffshire. At one o'clock on the afternoon of the 26th of Febru- ary, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that Wick radio had received a message from the motor fishing boat Elm Grove, of Buckie, that a fisherman...