LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pennington
FLEETWOOD, LANCASHIRE.—The sloop Pennington, of and for Liverpool from Fleetwood, laden with gravel, was seen drifting into a position of danger near North Wharf, having lost her sails, during a fresh gale from the N.N.E., on the 6th...
Six Days Aboard Welsh Life-Boats
FROM the 22nd to the 29th of June, 1960, the B.B.C. broadcast each evening a half-hour programme in the Welsh Home Service. The composite title of the series was Over the Waves, the narrator being Mr. Wynford Vaughan- Thomas. The six items...
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The Life-Boat Service. Its Expenditure at a Glance. Its Income at a Glance.
Its Expenditure at a Glance How each £100 of the Institution's Expenditure was paid out in 1954 £ s. d.
32 6 8 MMBHH HBM New Construetioii.
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Category: Accounts
Rnli News
Official visits The RNLI was host to several visitors in the early part of 1990, each with a different interest in the Institution and its work.
On 24 January Patrick McLoughlin MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State...
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Rival
HASBOROUGH.— The ketch Rival, of London, bound there from Newcastle with fire-bricks, went ashore at Ostend, about a mile and a quarter N. of the Hasborough Life-boat Station, during a strong E.N.E.
wind and a thick fog on...
Panachrandos
Walmer, Ken*.—At 5.50 P.M. on the * 19th October, 1939, eight hours after the life-boat had brought back the doctor from the Dutch steamer Mirza, a message was received from the doctor that the senior naval officer, Ramsgate, wished him to...
Triton
SEAMAN'S INJURIES St. Ives, Cornwall. At 12.20 a.m. on 2nd April, 1964, the honorary secretary was told by the radio medico service that the Belgian trawler Triton of Zeebrugge was proceeding towards St. Ives Bay with a badly injured...
On Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Flag Day
On Great Yarmouth and Gorleston flag day.
July 15, Danny La Rue, then appearing in his summer show at Great Yarmouth, came to the market place lifeboat stall and signed photographs of himself, which he donated, and also... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Annual General Meeting
H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA, DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, attended the annual general meeting of the governors of the Institution on the 6th March, 1962. Reporting on the past year's work, Earl Howe, Chairman of the...
Category: Meetings
Boathouses in fact and fiction:
Daphne du Maurier
• Her father bought a boathouse at Bodinnick, Cornwall, to convert intoa holiday cottage.
• She wrote sections of Frenchman’s Creek in a Coastguard hut above Lantic Bay.<...
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