LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Aeroplane (203)
DECEMBER 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK, AND LOWESTOFT, SUFFOLK. A British aeroplane had crashed into the sea 3 miles E.N.E. of Lowestoft, but nothing was found, except a blue mitten which sank before it could be picked up. -...
Loreley
HARWICH.—-At noon on the 7th Feb., in answer to a telegram, the Springwtll Life-boat was manned and put off to the rescue of the crew of a vessel ashore on the Shipwash Sand. A strong S.S.E. wind was blowing at the time, and the sea was...
John Virgo (R) In Action at the Lottery Draw Watched By Anthony Oliver (I) and John Taylor
John Virgo (R) In Action at The Lottery Draw Watched By Anthony Oliver (I) and John Taylor. - View image in PDF
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Below: RNLI Ireland Now Boasts a New Support Building In Swords, Dublin, Opened By President Mary Mcaleese
Below: RNLI Ireland Now Boasts A New Support Building In Swords, Dublin, Opened By President Mary Mcaleese. - View image in PDF
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The 37Ft 6in Rother Class
The 37ft din Rother class lifeboat Shoreline is stationed at Blyth. The station honorary secretary is Dr Reginald Carr (I.) who is also Blyth's honorary medical adviser. He is a busy GP and when a call for the lifeboat comes while he is... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
Category: Articles
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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Annual Report
AT the Annual General Meeting of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at the Mansion House, by the kind permission of the LORD MAYOR of London, on Thursday, the 28th of February, 1867, His ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE OF WALES, K.G.,...
Category: Annual Reports
The S.S. Clew Bay
Donaghadee, Co. Down.1—At 4.20 in the morning of the 2nd of April, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a vessel was ashore about a mile south of Lame Lough, and the life-boat Joseph Adlam, on temporary duty at the sta- tion, was launched at...
A Memorial to Richard Cowling, Who Was Coxswain of the Flamborough Life-Boat for 20 Years, Was Unveiled In Flamborough Church on 18th June
A memorial to Richard Cowling, who was coxswain of the Flamborough life-boat for 20 years, was unveiled in Flamborough church on 18th June. Here the Vicar (the Rev.
E. Appleyard) is pointing to the memorial stone which... - View image in PDF
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