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Feature Bringing History Alive

Date: Winter 2003

Volume: 59

Issue: 563

When was the last time you visited a museum or a historic site? The best places are those that bring history to life, for children and adults. If the museum inspires you, not only will you have a great day out. you will leave knowing far...

Category: Articles

Tadorne

Date: November 1913

Volume: 22

Issue: 250

The steam trawler Tadorne, of Boulogne, was wrecked early in the morning of the 29th March, during a fog, a short distance from Howick Haven. The vessel was bound from Boulogne to the Iceland fishing grounds, and had a crew of thirty hands...

United States Life-Saving Service

Date: November 1904

Volume: 19

Issue: 214

AT the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1903, there were embraced in the Life-saving Service of the United States no less than 273 stations, 196 of which were established on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, 60. on the...

Category: Articles

Gem

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

DECEMBER 11TH. - WHITBY, YORKSHIRE.

A crew from Whitby had gone to Bridlington to fetch the motor fishing boat Gem. As the seas were heavy the life-boat coxswain kept a look-out for her. At 6.40 in the evening the...

Twin Brothers Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins of Dover (I) and Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Met Aboard Their Lifeboats When Great Ya

Date: Summer 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 473

Twin brothers, Coxswain/Assistant Mechanic Anthony Hawkins of Dover (I.) and Coxswain/Mechanic Richard Hawkins of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, met aboard their lifeboats when Great Yarmouth and Gorleston's new 44ft Waveney class... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Naming Ceremonies

Date: October 1970

Volume: 41

Issue: 433

As briefly reported in the July issue of THE LIFE-BOAT (page 154) a number of life-boat naming ceremonies have taken place.

Barry Dock, Glamorganshire: the 44-foot steel life-boat Arthur & Blanche Harris was named by...

Category: Inaugurations

Katina Bulgaris

Date: June 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 338

The Humber, Yorkshire.—8th February, 1939. The- Greek steamer Katina Bulgaris, of Andros, had collided with the American steamer Meanticut and sank, but the Meanticut rescued her crew.—Permanent paid crew: Rewards, £l Os. 3d..

A Pilot Cutter's Boat

Date: June 1937

Volume: 30

Issue: 330

Weymouth, Dorset.—23rd January.

A pilot cutter's boat had capsized, and a steamer had picked up one man. The other two had been drowned before help could reach them. The boat and rescued man were brought ashore by the...

Exercise With Hovercraft:

Date: Winter 1984

Volume: 49

Issue: 487

Exercise with hovercraft: a shipping disaster occurs in the English Channel large numbers of passengers might have to be rescued and it is likely that a cross channel hovercraft will be directed to the scene to act as a floating casualty... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Marguerite (1)

Date: March 1948

Volume: 32

Issue: 345

TWO LIFE-BOATS AND A STEAMER TO THE RESCUE North Sunderland, and Boulmer, North- umberland.—At 4.36 in the afternoon of the 17th of January, 1948, the Seahouses coastguard telephoned to North Sunderland that the local fishing yawl...