LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Modern Lifeboat Equipment
PEOPLE seeing lifeboats at sea for the first time have been heard to express surprise that they are so small. A lifeboat is indeed a small vessel. It has to be because a high proportion of rescues are carried out near rocks or sand banks...
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The Fundraisers
The Tone Vale Lodge, based at the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOBJ club at Taunton, raises cash for a different charity each year. Members normally aim to raise £200 in the course of a year but in 2000 managed to break all...
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Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 6
AMONG the numerous models sent in for competition for the Northumberland Prize in 1850 there were no less than twenty-one varieties of Life-rafts, some supported by one cylinder, but more by two; some by closed canoes; some by a boat divided...
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The Lincolnshire Coast Shipwreck Association
WHEN the "National Shipwreck Institution," as this Institution was then called, was re-organized and consolidated in 1850, there were various county associations which acted in harmony and unison with it, but for all practical...
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The Royal Naval Exhibition, Chelsea, 1891. (Second Article.)
THE closing of this Exhibition last week will be regretted by the large number who have spent many an amusing and indeed instructive on hoar within its gates.
The original promoters, executive com- mittee and all others...
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Services of the Life-Boats In January, February and March. 29 Lives Rescued
JANUARY DURING January life-boats were launched on service 28 times and rescued 3 lives.
INJURED MAN TAKEN OFF TRAWLER Scarborough, Yorkshire. At 5.15 on the evening of the 1st of January, 1960, the coastguard informed the...
Category: Services
Institution's Divisional Inspectors of Lifeboats By Joan Davies
A MONDAY MORNING IN JUNE, and a divisional inspector of lifeboats waits on an airfield for an early flight. An odd place, perhaps, to pick up the story of the day to day life of a DI, but then this DI's territory takes in an island and...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 9th January, 1902.
Captain the Hon. JOHN M. YORKE, R.N., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Reported that His Majesty THE KING had...
Category: Committee
Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1930. Presentation of Prizes In the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts
Presentation of Prizes in the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 20th October, the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) pre- sided at the presentation of the...
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The Fundraisers
Gala brings history alive Two stars of the popular television series Heartbeat, helped draw the crowds at Whitby's lifeboat gala, over the weekend of the 29 and 30 July, when they performed a champagne launch on the town's restored...
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