LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rfd-Gq
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY AT SEA? RFD 'Z' boats are extensively used by RNLI for inshore rescue work.
Specially developed for rough weather conditions with a large reserve of built in buoyancy.
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Lizzie Ellen
The Life-boat Lizzie Ellen was launched on the 12th January to the assistance of a vessel which was being towed into Mount's Bay with a distress signal flying. Before they reached the vessel she anchored, and the steamer which had been...
The Institution and the War
WE have the pleasure of giving a list of the Officers and members of the Staff, or of a Permanent Crew, of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION who have been called up or who have volunteered for service with His Majesty's Forces...
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H. M. S. Sappho
In the dense fog which prevailed in the Channel on the night of the 19th June, H.M.S. Sappho collided with another vessel off Dunge- ness. By a strange coincidence the colliding ship was also named the Sappho. The position of the cruiser...
The Whitethorn Morris Dancers Donated £25 to the Rnli
The Whitethorn morris dancers donated £25 to the RNLI after performing in the Harrow area last Boxing Day, a traditional busking day. They specialise in traditional north west clog morris dances.. - View image in PDF
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Gannett
About 7.30 P.M. on the 23rd January, signals of distress were seen on the yawl Gannett, of AVexford, which had run aground the previous day, and the Life-boat James Stevens No. 15 was sent out in response. As the tide was nearly low, she was...
A Rubber Dinghy
Cromer, Norfolk.—About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the 7th of August, 1948, a bather could be seen in a rubbeJ dinghy three-quarters of a mile north- east of the pier. He appeared to be drifting seawards on the ebbing...
Football
THE annual match for the " Baring Cup" was played between teams representing the Head Office and the Storeyard on 2nd April, on a ground kindly lent by Messrs. J. Stone & Co.
Ltd., at Charlton, Kent. The...
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Astros
REFLOATING A TRAWLER Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.—At 6.20 in the morning of the 2nd of September, 1947, the coastguard reported a trawler ashore south of Rattray Head, with a bad list to port. The motor life-boat Julia Park Barry, of Glasgow,...
The S.S. Upminister
JANUARY 9TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK.
At 11.13 A.M. a message was received from the coastguard that a vessel 2 1/2 miles S.E. of No. 85 light-vessel, appeared to be in distress. An easterly breeze was blowing,with a moderate sea...