LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fundraisers
Appeal reaches £75,000 BBC Radio Cleveland's Lifeboat 2000 Appeal has now reached the target of €75,000 to purchase an Atlantic 75 class inshore lifeboat for Hartiepool.
The news was broken to thousands of...
Category: Articles
The Fundraisers
Helping hand The Mayor of St. Albans, the Revd Cllr Robert Donald, assisted St. Albans and district branch with a successful collection on 13 December 1996. The collection took place outside Safeways supermarket in Fleetville, St. Albans and...
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The Regulations of the Institution
THE LIFE-BO AT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 120 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 56 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 25th, 1933 - - - 63,502 The Regulations of the Institution.<...
Category: Committee
The Oar
PROBABLY the most ancient mode of propelling boats through the water by hand labour was by means of oars of nearly the same shape, and worked in the same manner, as those now in use. And to all appearance there is no likelihood of a change,...
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Services of the Life-Boats
Easington, Yorkshire. — On the 28th March, during moderately rough weather a message was received by telephone stating that a steam trawler had stranded, and was in great danger near the old foundation of the Kilasea Beacon. The crew of the...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the October, November, December, and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the October, November, December, and January Meetings of the Committee of Management.
October Meeting.
EOSSLARE HARBOUR, Co. WEXFORD.
—On 20th September the Royal Firth, of...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1862
IN accordance with our annual custom for many years past, we again present our readers with a synopsis of the returns just made by the Board of Trade to Parliament, of the wrecks and casualties which have taken place on the coasts, and in...
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The Rescue
I WAS hastening up from the beach, where the life-boat men had rendered good service that night.
****** The work was nobly done! JOHN FURBY, the coxswain, with a sturdy crew of volun- teers—twelve in all—were ready for...
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The Tempest
Miranda.—" If by your art, my dearest Father, you have Put the wild waters in this roar, allay them.
The sky, it seems, would pour down stinking pitch, But that the sea, mounting to the welkin's cheek, Dashes the...
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The Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain John Angus, of Howth, Co. Dublin.
Appointed in January, 1900, he has been coxswain for nearly thirty-four years..
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