LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Mass rescue by RNLI Beach Lifeguards Brilliant sunshine and perfect surf conditions drew large numbers of people to North Cornwall at the end of May this year. Adults and children were enjoying swimming and playing in the water between the...
Salvage Payments to Life-Boats' Crews
SALVAGE PAYMENTS TO LIFEBOATS' CREWS.
As it often happens that the life-boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION are the means of saving vessels and their cargoes from destruction, or of materially contributing...
Category: Articles
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Fallen from cliff AT 1620 ON APRIL 22 the Garda Siochana informed Dr O'Brien-Moran, deputy launching authority of Tramore ILB station, that a young man had fallen and was lying seriously injured at the base of the cliff just west of...
Spurn Life-Boat Crew (Bradford's Own) As Guard of Honour to the Prince of Wales
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Bradford on 30th May, the Spurn Lifeboat Crew whose new Motor Boat is being provided out of the special fund raised in Bradford, and is to be named after the city played a prominent part in the welcome given...
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The Mumbles (Below): a New Winch Installed In the Boathouse Last January Was Brought Across from Swansea Dock By An Army Landing Craft to Be Hauled Up the Slipway
The Mumbles (below): A new winch, installed in the boathouse last January, was brought across from Swansea Dock by an army landing craft to be hauled up the slipway by the old Webber winch which it is replacing.
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Category: Photographs
Forty-Five Hours on the Goodwins. Thirty Lives Rescued from An Italian Steamer
By L. H. Shelvey, Honorary Secretary of the Walmer Station AT ten past three on the afternoon of Friday the 2nd of January, the coastguard telephoned to me that a vessel appeared to be aground on the Goodwin Sands, one and a half miles...
Category: Services
Solstad (1)
Broughty Ferry, Angus, and Aberdeen.
—10th October, 1939. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear disabled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor...
Solstad (1)
OCT. 10TH. - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear dis-abled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor life-boat was unable to...
Jenny Jones of Barmouth
On the 24th March, the smack Jenny Jones, of Barmouth, was observed in a dangerous posi- tion, with signals of distress flying, in Porth- dinllaen Bay, during a gale of wind from N.W. The Cotton Sheppard life-boat was quickly launched, and...
Spotters Guide
In the Winter 96/97 issue, spotter's guide to lifeboat classes looked at the lifeboats of the Institution's all-weather fleet. In this issue, we bring you the inshore lifeboats and the only intermediate class in the fleet, the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs