LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart of 1859
IN accordance with our annual custom, we are called on to chronicle the fearful and, in the present instance, unprecedented effects, both on life and property, of the terrific storms of the preceding twelve months in the seas and on the...
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Daring innovation
To his friends and colleagues, David Stogdon appeared to live entirely without fear yet he was a survivor of at least two near-death experiences. In 1940, during the Second World War, the destroyer Brazen sank underneath the young naval...
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Annual Report
AT the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, held at Willis's Booms, King Street, St. James's Square, on Tuesday, the 16th day of March 1880, His Grace THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, Lord Privy Seal,...
Category: Annual Reports
An Aeroplane (46)
APRIL 20TH. - APPLEDORE, AND ILFRACOMBE, DEVON. At about 1 P.M.
a message was received at Appledore from the Croyde coastguard that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea on the south side of Morte Bay, and at 1.10 P.M. the...
The Last of the Life-Boat Horses
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET Motor Life-boats, 131 :: Pulling & Sailing Life-boats, 37 LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Institution in 1824 to November 30th, 1936 - 64,872 The Last of the Life-boat Horses.
WHEN the...
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the February, March and April Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Bridlington, Yorkshire. — At about 7 A.M. on the morning of the llth January a man was badly injured on board the...
Category: Services
New Boats for North Sunderland and Exmouth
The new North Sunderland life-boat was named Grace Darling at the life- boat station at Seahouses on the 31st of July. Mr. H. E. B. Daniell, chair- man of the North Sunderland branch, took the chair. Lieut. E. D. Stogdon, R.N.V.R., district...
Category: Inaugurations
Ceremonies
Newhaven, May 27, 1986 When Mrs Esme Anderson presented the 52ft Arun class lifeboat Keith Anderson to Newhaven on the afternoon of Tuesday May 27, she wanted everyone at the ceremony to know a little about her late husband, whose name she...
Category: Inaugurations
Francis's Corrugated Iron Boats
As iron ship-building has been most suc- cessfully practised in this country for several years past, and as we possess superior ad- vantages over all other countries for the manufacture of that metal, it is surely matter for surprise that we...
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Contents
f~~ _ _. A. _ „ A. Notes of the Quarter, by Patrick Howarth 3 Summary of Accounts for 1977 4 Volume XLVI Lifeboat Semces 5 N IYlber 464 Inshore Lifeboats: dedication ceremonies at Abersoch, Port Isaac and St Ives 13 Matthew Lethbridge, Jnr,...
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