LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Slaughden, a Mile and Half South of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, Was Once a Busy Port. In the Late 1950S, When This Photograph Was Taken, the Longshoremen There Were Advertising Their Various Skills By
Slaughden, a mile and half south of Aldeburgh, Suffolk, was once a busy port. In the late 1950s, when this photograph was taken, the longshoremen there were advertising their various skills by means of painted signs.. - View image in PDF
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Coxswain William (Bill) Sheader's Family Has a Long Tradition of Service With the Life-Boats and the Local Fishing Fleet One of Whose Boats Is Pictured Entering the Harbour With
Coxswain William (Bill) Sheader's family has a long tradition of service with the life-boats and the local fishing fleet, one of whose boats is pictured entering the harbour with the usual flock of seagulls.. - View image in PDF
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Mr E W Sheppard of Nottingham Pictured With His 52-Foot Barnett Life-Boat Model Which Is 4-Foot 6-Inches Long and Took Him 18 Months to Complete on Exhibition It Has
Mr. E. W. Sheppard, of Nottingham, pictured with his 52-foot Barnett life-boat model which is 4-foot 6-inches long and took him 18 months to complete. On exhibition it has earned money for the R.N.L.I. and created great interest.. - View image in PDF
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Two Rare Postcards Sen! In By Mr F a Fletcher of East Boldon Tyne and Wear Co-Author of Two Books on Exhibitions Show a Lifeboat on Display at the Imperial Services Exhibition at Earls Court
Two rare postcards sen! in by Mr F. A. Fletcher of East Boldon, Tyne and Wear, co-author of two books on exhibitions, show a lifeboat on display at the Imperial Services Exhibition at Earls Court in 1913. The lifeboat was John and Amy, a... - View image in PDF
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History In the Re-Making: In January 1899 Lynmouth Lifeboat Was Hauled Up Countisbury Hill Ten Miles Over Exmoor and Down the Notorious Porlock Hill Through a Severe Gale So That She Could La
History in the re-making: in January 1899 Lynmouth lifeboat was hauled up Countisbury Hill, ten miles over Exmoor and down the notorious Porlock Hill through a severe gale so that she could launch from the comparative shelter of Porlock Weir... - View image in PDF
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The Organisers of the Moelex 80 Business and Home Exhibition Staged at the University of Essex for Five Days Last Spring Invited Colchester Branch to Set Up a Souvenir Stand at the Event Here
The organisers of the Moelex 80 Business and Home Exhibition staged at the University of Essex for five days last spring, invited Colchester branch to set up a souvenir stand at the event. Here, Mrs Ruth Clarke, the honorary secretary,... - View image in PDF
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The Chairman of the Management Committee, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Pictured With Life-Boat Officials and Members of the Crew at Blackpool on 26th February, 1967
The Chairman of the Management Committee, Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham- Quin, R.N., pictured with life-boat officials and members of the crew at Blackpool on 26th February, 1967.. - View image in PDF
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Canterbury Bell
On the morning of the 22nd April the ketch Canterbury Bell, of Plymouth, bound from Dublin for Portmadoc with wheat, was seen stranded on the causeway about eight miles from the bar. The Barmouth Life-boat Jones Oibb proceeded to her...
The S.S. Foreland
Great Yarmouth and Corleston, Norfolk.
At 9.40 in the morning of the 20th of May, 1948, the S.S. Foreland., of Blyth, anchored off Great Yarmouth and sig- nalled for a doctor. At 9.57 the motor life-boat Louise Stephens was...
A Washington Aircraft (5)
On the 26th of January, 1954, six life-boats, those from Barrow, Fleet- wood, Blackpool and Lytham-St.
Annes, Lancashire, and Douglas and Port St. Mary, Isle of Man, searched unsuccessfully for the crew of a Washington...