LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI News
Several aspects of the Chairman's address at the Annual General Meeting - reported elsewhere in this issue - are more closely linked than might appear at first sight.
The Chairman referred both to the ever-increasing...
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The Silvia Onorato
The Silvia Onorato on the Goodwin Sands at Low Tide. - View image in PDF
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Maldon Little Ship Club's New Year's Day Sponsored Yacht Tender Rowing Race Was Won By Brian Watkins (I) and Malcolm Holland Twenty-Six Boats Took Part and £203 W
Maldon Little Ship Club's New Year's Day sponsored yacht tender rowing race was won by Brian Watkins (I.) and Malcolm Holland.
Twenty-six boats took part and £.203 was raised for the lifeboat... - View image in PDF
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Life-Belts for Fishermen
IN 1882 the Committee of the Institution, being deeply impressed with the serious loss of life from drowning taking place year by year from the Fishing Vessels working to and from the coasts of the United Kingdom, decided, with the hope of...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Summary of Its Proceedings from 1st January, 1860, to 31st December, 1861
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On 28th to 29th October, the night following the service of the St. Mary's Life-boat, the gales reached their worst, striking with special violence on the coast of North Wales and Lancashire.
That night nine Life-boats...
Harry
COURTMACSHERRY, Co. Cork. — The fishing-smack Harry, of Courtmacsherry, while getting under weigh to run for shelter from the roadstead to the pier in a heavy W.S.W. gale, at 3 P.M. on the 17th May, lost one of her anchors. When under weigh...
Clutching Her Pooh Bear Laura Glover
Clutching her Pooh bear Laura Glover prepares to take part in the annual Pooh sticks race held on the bridge at Little Wittenham in Oxfordshire in January. In spite of rain and wind, 240 adults and children took part in the race, held over a... - View image in PDF
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Rose
A TOW IN A ROUGH SEA Girvan, Ayrshire.—About 5 o'clock in the evening of the 26th of November, 1947, a motor fishing boat was seen one mile to the westward, apparently broken down. On being signalled she replied that she did not need...
An Aeroplane (50)
APRIL 4TH. - FLEETWOOD LANCASHIRE.
A Bristol Hampden aircraft had been reported missing but nothing was found.
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