LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Grand designs for a lifeboat station
There’s been a lifeboat station in the picturesque town of Tenby, in south west Wales, for 160 years – but it’s not always been in the same place
The station was established in 1852 by the...
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An unexpected catch
When six teenagers fished into the early hours of a Summer morning, they suddenly became caught themselves
The group, aged 14–16, began night fishing from disused oyster beds at the north end of Langstone Harbour,...
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Lifeboat Services
South Western Division Danish coaster capsized RAME HEAD Coastguard reported Plymouth deputy launching authority 1403 on January 16 that the Danish coaster Merc Enterprise was in serious difficulties 23 miles south of Plymouth breakwater,...
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RNLI In Action
RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Lost and listing Volunteer lifeboat crews from Falmouth and The Lizard joined the rescue... - View image in PDF
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Two Great Services on the East Coast. Cromer Norfolk; Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Norfolk; Southwold, Suffolk; Lowestoft, Suffolk
AT 8.30, in the evening of 21st November, 1927, the Motor Life-boat at Great Yarmouth and Gorleston was launched in response to a wireless message received from s.s. Trent that help was urgently required to save the lives of the crew of the...
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Fast Afloat Boats
FAST AFLOAT BOATS FIRST PRODUCTION BOATS ORDERED CLASS NAMES ANNOUNCED. - View image in PDF
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Classification of Services and Lives Saved By Life-Boats
CATEGORY (1) Naval vessels . .
(2) Foreign going merchant vessels (3) Home trade merchant vessels . .
(4) Commercial fishing vessels (5) Powered pleasure craft . .
(6) Sailing pleasure...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 12th September, 1901.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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Surf Is a Way of Life on the North Cornwall Coast - Blue Peter Iv Is Seen (Below)
Surf is a way of life on the North Cornwall coast - Blue Peter IV is seen (below) launching on exercise through seas very much smaller than those encountered in the Vellumwinning service From the survivor's point of view… The RNLI's... - View image in PDF
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