LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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New Brighton, Cheshire.- At 10.15 on the night of the 27th of July, 1954, the Superintendent of Wallasey Ferries reported that a large pontoon beneath the New Brighton landing stage had severed its securing bolts and was adrift. It was a...
The Codling Bank Lightvessel
TO LIGHTVESSEL Wicklow. At 6.45 p.m. on 2ist June, 1965, Irish Lights Office asked the honorary secretary if the life-boat would bring ashore a member of the crew of the Codling Bank lightvessel as his mother was seriously ill. This was...
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Bembridge, Isle of Wight. At 9.5 on the evening of the 13th May, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that a boy had fallen over the cliffs at Horseshoe Bay and had been seriously injured. At 9.11, when the life- boat Jesse...
The Service Boards of Rye Harbour
Ox Sunday the 27th of July. 1952, a service was held in the Church of the Holy Spirit, at Rye Harbour, to cele- brate the centenary of the first record- ed rescue, in August 1852, by the Rye Harbour life-boat, known at first as the...
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YLA Section
All inquiries concerning YLA matters should be addressed to: Mr. Alasdair Garrett, Secretary, Yachtsmen's Life-boat Supporters' Association, 29a Castle Street, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 ITT.
(Tel.: 0722-6966).RALLY...
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An Australian Motor Life-Boat In Action
This boat stationed at Queenscliff, Victoria, was built at Port Adelaide in 1926, after designs of the Institution, and her engines and fittings were supplied by the Institution.. - View image in PDF
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Hastings - Mersey Class Sealink Endeavour
Deck chair weather for the guests at the naming of the Mersey class Sealink Endeavour by HRH The Duke of Kent at Hastings on 21 September. (Photo Tony Denton). - View image in PDF
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A Taste of France
Can-can girls were popular entertainers at a French Connection evening, staged by the Middelsex forum at the end of November - raising nearly £3,000 for the RNLI.. - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Regulations January, 1865
THE following Regulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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The S.S. Inga
At noon on the 19th October a message was received from the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board offices that a vessel in the channel was dragging her anchors and making distress signals. A full W. by N. gale was blowing, with a very heavy sea and...