LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the National Life-Boat Institution In 1882
Jan. 3.—Fire men put off in a boat at great risk arid rescued eight men whose boa|, had been driven away from Island Crone, Co. Don- egal, by a sudden gale of wind from the S.W., on the 2nd January, leaving them on the island —which is...
Category: Articles
Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...
Category: Meetings
Beowulf
The RNLI has been asking some of those who have been on the receiving end of a lifeboat service to complete a questionnaire giving the details as seen from their viewpoint.
The scheme is completely voluntary, but a large...
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Dungeness, Kent.—At 5.23 on the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1956, the Rye police reported that there was a young girl in the sea off Camber. At 5.35 the life-boat Charles Cooper Henderson was launched. The sea was choppy, there was a...
Arnoytrans
Scottish crews out in numbers Ravaged by remnants of the hurricane season, the British Isles were soaked and windswept in late summer 2004. At the end of one of the wettest Augusts on record, the rough sea conditions off the northern tip of...
Swimming Collars
SWIMMING collars indeed! Who ever, until lately, heard of such a thing as a swimming collar? One has heard of "grinning through a horse-collar," but to swim in a collar seems, at first sight, so great an absurdity that the idea...
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The Half-Pence Scheme
The half-pence scheme My grandad and nan have been saving half-pennies for the lifeboat service for 28 years. Of course they receive a receipt for what they hand in but my brother Paul and I feel sure they would love to see a few words of...
Category: Correspondence
Experimental R/T Sets for IRBS
Nine inshore rescue boats are being fitted experimentally with very high frequency radio telephones. The boats selected are stationed at Bangor, Berwick- upon-Tweed, Bridlington, Eastney, Holyhead, The Mumbles, Southend-on- Sea, Torbay and...
Category: Articles