LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXXI. APPLEDORE No. 1.— Temporary Boat, 31 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
LXXII. APPLEDORE No. 2.— Jane Hannah MacDanald, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
JLXXIJI. BRAUNTON.— Robert and Catherine, 34 feet by 8...
Category: Articles
Top RNLI Awards
top RNLi AWARds The RNLI held its Annual Presentation of Awards in London’s Barbican Centre on 17 May, and Bronze Medals for Gallantry were awarded by HRH The Duke of Kent to Dr Christine Bradshaw (see page 16), Lifeguard Sophie...
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Your Letters
Still at work I read with interest the account of the rescue off Moelfre on 26 August (THE LIFEBOAT Autumn 1993 issue).
The MFV you referred to, which took in tow the second casualty, was Manx Voyager - the ex-Watson class...
Category: Correspondence
May Day 1-31 May
‘ If it wasn’t for the helmet, I wouldn’t be here’
It’s easy to take the things that protect us for granted. We get used to having our day-to-day safety nets there
should we ever need them. But our volunteers...
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Cook's Tour Ends!
After 26 years as landlord of the Captain Cook pub in Teesmouth, Ronnie Rees (left) is retiring and to commemorate his fundraising efforts Teesmouth lifeboat station presented Ronnie with a plaque.
Harry Aspland, shore... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1898
Jan. 13.—Voted 22. each to the fonr sur- vivors of the crew of the Margate beachmon's surf boat Friend of aU Nations, which was capsized, with, the loss of nine of her crew while on her way to a distressed vessel on the 2nd December last...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1935
4. 4.55 a.m. 4. 11.15 a.m. 4. 11.20 a.m. 4. 4.33 p.m. 8. 5.0 p.m. 9. 11.30 a.m. 11. 7.52 a.m. 11.
11. 3.30 p.m.
4.37 p.m. 13. 10.25 a.m. 13. 3.15 p.m. 22. 9.5 p.m. ...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (22)
SEPT. 9TH. - MARGATE, KENT, AND SOUTHEND-ON-SEA, ESSEX. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea off Leysdown. The Margate life-boat was launched just after eleven at night in a thick fog and reached Leysdown two hours and twenty...
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 4
THE years 1850-1, next to the year 1785, were those of the greatest importance in the history of the Coast Life-boat, and in fact of- the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION also, for, as has often been pointed out, apathy in the Life-boat...
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