LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
In Brief MKMBKRS of Backwell branch recently travelled to Cherbourg and back in a day as guests of the P&O ferry company to sell RN LI Volvo draw tickets to passengers. The captains of both the ferries involved, Pride of Cherbourg and...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (31)
SEPTEMBER 6TH. - HASTINGS AND EASTBOURNE, SUSSEX. At 12.40 in the afternoon information was received from the coastguard and the police that an aeroplane was down in the sea. A fresh W.S.W. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The...
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE 13TH INTERNATIONAL LIFEBOAT CONFERENCE, on which a report appears on page 148, was as always an extremely harmonious and friendly affair. Indeed it would be difficult to find a gathering of pleasanter people anywhere in the world. To...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Friday, 23rd February, 1923.
The Right Hon. The EARL WALDEGRAVE, P.O., in the Chair.
Reported the receipt of the following special contribution :—
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Category: Committee
Statement of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, During the Year 1861
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Category: Services
An Aeroplane
19th April. An aeroplane had dived low and had flown off when the observers were unsighted.
They reported her to have disappeared into the sea.—Rewards, £8..
The Weather of 1886. Abridged from the Daily News, 1st January, 1887
The weather of last year was, in some respects, like a well-constructed story.
Beginning in a tame and uneventful fashion, the interest gradually increased as time wore on, until at the close of the period we were...
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The Fising Smack Britannina
On the 19th May, the fish- ing-smack Britannia, standing too near the shore at Hastings, struck on the rocks off the east end of the town, and sunk; the wind blowing a strong gale from the east at the time. The Hastings life-boat was im-...
Above: An Injured Walker Is Stretchered Down
Above: An injured walker is stretchered down a cliff by the Coastguard cliff rescue to the waiting lifeboat.
This is just an exercise, but in 2001 RNLI lifeboats launched 446 times to people who had fallen from cliffs or... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
When Mr. Basil Dove, Lighthouse Keeper at Beachy Head, Injured Himself When He Fell Down a Flight of Steps, Eastbourne Life-Boat Went Alongside to Take Him Off
When Mr. Basil Dove, lighthouse keeper at Beachy Head, injured himself when he fell down a flight of steps, Eastbourne life-boat went alongside to take him off.
An account of this service will appear in the next issue of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs