LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Mayflower
Stornoway, Outer Hebrides.—At 9.52 on the night of the 7th of September, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that the motor fishing boat Mayflower, which had gone with a crew of five, to SuUskcr Rock for Solan-geese, was overdue. A...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PETERHEAD, SCOTLAND.—The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat was launched at noon on the 5th of January, 1886, some of the boats engaged in the haddock fishery having been overtaken by a strong gale of wind from the N.E. and. a heavy sea....
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James Cocker and Sons
Launch the 160th anniversary of the RNLI by introducing THE COXSWAIN to your garden Produced by rose specialists James Cocker and Sons, Aberdeen, in limited quantity for RNLI friends and supporters, this peach pink, sweetly scented hybrid...
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Tregenna Castle Hotel
•LIFEBOAT WEEKEND.., at The Tregenna Castle Hotel, St.Ives °t Friday evening 31st October to Monday morning 3rd November 1997 Enjoy a Luxurious Two or Three Night Weeke at Cornwall's Premier Holiday Resort. Includes en-suite...
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Three Life-Boat Centenaries
Lizard AT a dinner held at the Housel Bay Hotel, the Lizard, on the 24th of April, 1959, to mark the hundredth anniver- sary of the founding of the life-boat station, Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, presented a...
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3,298 RNLI RESCUE CRAFT LAUNCHES 1 JANUARY–30 JUNE 2017
The launches listed here are those for which returns had been received at RNLI Headquarters and processed by 25 July 2017
Behind every launch, new lifeboat and naming ceremony listed in this section is a community of...
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A Year of Endeavour
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the RNLI, brandies and guilds were asked to make some special fund raising effort to help raise the six million pounds needed for the vast boat building programme on which the Institution has embarked...
Category: Donations
Crystal, of Dieppe
Exmouth, Devon.—The motor life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton was launched at 4.52 P.M. on the 15th November, as the coastguard had reported that a trawler, at anchor one mile off West Bay, was in need of help. She had asked for a tug earlier...
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1928
THE subject set for the eighth Lifeboat Essay Competition in Elementary Schools was " Describe the kind of man that a good Life-boatman should be." The number of schools taking part was 1919, an increase on last year of 427. The...
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Brakesea
At 3.45 A.M.
on the llth December, while a whole south-westerly gale was raging, inform- ation was received from the coastguard that a vessel was showing signals of distress about seven miles to the south- eastward of...