LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishing Cobles
STAITHES.—A sudden gale of wind from E.S.E. arose on the morning of the 14th March, 1896, and a heavy sea sprung up, endangering the safety of the fishingcobles, which had proceeded to sea at daybreak. The Life-boat Jonathan Stott put off at...
Life-Boat Crews
"MAN the Life-boat!" has become a household -word, and it may possibly prove of some interest to those who, have not had the opportunity of seeing different parts of the coast of England, or of studying the different types of the...
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Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEBOAT Tyne class lifeboat ON-1116 Roben and Violet Funding Anonymous gift THE CREW Co swain Anthony Barclay Crew members Dave Jones Dave Jones IJnr] Vincent Jones Rod Pace Gary Roberts David Williams MOELFRE LIFEBOAT STATION...
Category: Services
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
Coxswain's Certificate of Service.
THE COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and & PENSION, have been awarded to :— . ' FREDERICK BARNES, 19J years coxswain and 13 years second coxswain, and 2J years...
Category: Awards
Soudan
Dungeness, Kent.—At 3.30 A.M. on the j 13th December the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore half a mile S.S.E. of Jury's Gap coastguard station. There was a thick fog, a moderate N.W. wind and a ground swell. As the tide was...
Destroyed By Enemy Action.
Tke Institution has decided to lay down two new motor life-boats, of the 46-feet Watson cabin type, costing £10,000 each, to replace two life-boats of this type which have been destroyed by enemy action.
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Swimming
A RECRUIT, on entering the French army, is early taught to swim. Water, when it becomes familiar, is the best of friends.
Soldiers have been known to march fifteen miles further (after a long march) under a sultry sun,...
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Two Barges
MARCH 5TH. - WALMER, KENT. Two large barges, which had broken away from a tug, were drifting towards the Goodwin Sands. The life-boat went alongside them and made sure that there was no one on board. She could not take them in tow, and as...
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...
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