LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboats In Action
THE LIFEBOAT Atlantic 21 lifeboat B- 589 James Burgess Funding: Gift of Mr and Mrs A Burgess THE CREW Helmsman Andrew Coe Crew members Philip Brenchley Adam Cowell WALMER LIFEBOAT STATION Established: First established 1856; closed 1912.<...
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In Loving Memory
In loving memory Six of the parents whose sons were lost off Land's End during Easter, 1985, have presented a cheque for £52,000 to Rear Admiral W. J. Graham, director, at RNLI Headquarters.
The money, which was...
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Bombed -- But Safe In Port.
A life-boat collecting box has come home after being bombed. It was on board a steamer which was attacked by aeroplanes and set on fire. Her crew abandoned her and 56 of them were landed by the Angle life-boat. Two days later she went...
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Technical Developments In the Life-Boat Service
THE Royal National Life-boat Institution has been criticised from time to time for being slow in adopting modern designs and techniques.
Such criticism largely arises from a lack of appreciation of several factors which...
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Reunited In New Zealand
Reunited in New Zealand Two ex-RNLI lifeboats were reunited again during July 1995, about as far from their home waters as it was possible to get.
Pictured are the Rother class Alice Upjohn being escorted intoNelson harbour... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Centenaries In the North-West
Two life-boat stations in the north- west, Barrow and Blackpool, cele- brated their centenaries in April and June.
It was commercial travellers who raised money for the first 36-foot sail- ing life-boat to be stationed...
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I.R.B. Services In Brief
Station Redcar Torbay Worthing Mudeford Redcar Southwold Whitstable Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Hastings Largs St. Ives Mudeford Redcar Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Redcar West Mersea Redcar Torbay Aberystwyth North Sunderland Aberystwyth...
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In This Issue.
News and Views The latest news from and about the RNLI Lifeboat Services 8 Rescues from around the country including a Bronze Medal and Vellum services Sepoy Rescue Anniversary 14 Philip Thouless looks back 65 years to when he witnessed the...
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St.David's Ladies' Guild Held An Aide Tyme Music Hall at Warpool Court Hotel on February 1 Attended By About 200 People Most of Them In Splendid Period Costume A
St David's ladies' guild held an aide tyme music hall at Warpool Court Hotel on February 1, attended by about 200 people, most of them in splendid period costume. A glittering evening of song, dance and mirth was under the... - View image in PDF
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Breeches Buoy Rescue In Whole Gale
ON the 27th of October, 1959, the day on which the Moelfre life-boat carried out the service which earned her cox- swain the gold medal, the crew of the Islay, Hebrides, life-boat also per- formed an outstanding service in ex- ceptionally...
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