LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Loss of Lives from Shipwreck at Bridlington
Some months ago, at Brid- lington, near Hull, during a strong S.E. gale, a small billyboy schooner came ashore south of the harbour of that place. She went into the bay and anchored in the afternoon. She soon dragged her...
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Lifeboat Classified
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Annual Report. 1901
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Town Hall, Westminster, on Saturday, the 20th day of April, 1901, His Grace the DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, K.G-., in the Chair, the following Report of the...
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Birthday Honours
AMONG those associated with the life- boat service on whom honours were bestowed in the Birthday Honours list were: Knight Bachelor: Alderman Martin Wallace, J.P., former president of the Belfast branch.
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SPECIAL DELIVERY
Last issue’s Father of Forecast piece charting the life of Robert FitzRoy certainly caught the imagination – here are just some of the many letters and emails we received …
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Island Rover
Valenria, Go. Kerry.--At 8.40 on the morning of the 29th of April, 1954, a message was received from Portmagee that the fishing boat Island Rover, of Tralee, was overdue with a crew of four. At nine o'clock the life-boat A.E.D. put out....
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 1st June, 1911. j The Bight Hon. the EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., ; in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting. ! Also read those of -the Building, Finance j and Correspondence, Wreck and...
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(Left) the Future Yarmouth Isle of Wight Arun Lifeboat Hull Building at Halmatic Havant During a Visit In April (I to R) C G Dove Chief Designer Halmatic Showed the Ne
(Left) The future Yarmouth, Isle of Wight Arun lifeboat hull building at Halmatic, Havant. During a visit in April, (I. to r.) C. G. Dove, Chief Designer, Halmatic, showed the new boat to Major-General R. A. Pigot, president of the Isle of... - View image in PDF
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A Winter Sponsored Raft Race on the River Dee Organised By the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club Raised £380 for Aberdeen's New Arun Lifeboat Bp Fortie
A winter sponsored raft race on the River Dee organised by the Aberdeen Branch of the British Sub-Aqua Club raised £380 for Aberdeen's new Arun lifeboat BP Forties. The 27 starters were sent on their way by Coxswain Albert Bird, who... - View image in PDF
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BROADSTAIRS, KENT. — The boatmen at Broadstairs having some time since requested the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to place one of its self-righting life-boats on that station, and it being considered that such a boat might be useful, in...
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