LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From Golf Clubs
In 1944 forty golf clubs held competitions to help the Life-boat Service and they contributed £223..
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From a Burmese Church
St. Marks Church at Akyab, Burma, has just been reopened, and one of the first things that it has done is to send a gift of 69 tupees to the Institution..
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Pulled from the river
TOWER | 14 OCTOBER
A woman believed to be suffering from epilepsy was rescued from the River Thames by Tower lifeboat crew. Passengers aboard a nearby boat directed the crew members to the woman. She...
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Rosalind
The Life-boat Coxswain at Hythe telephoned to the Dover Coxswain at 2 A.M. on the 1st July that a small yacht was making a distress signal by continuously sound- ing her fog-horn about half a mile off the Hythe Life-boat House. As the Hythe...
Rescue By Boarding Boat In Near Gale
AT 6.55 on the evening of Monday, 2nd September, 1963, the mechanic of the Valentia, County Kerry, life-boat station, Joseph Houlihan, saw a small dinghy capsize about 600 yards from the Life-boat storehouse, where he was working at the time...
Category: Services
Rescue from Capsized Speedboat
THE two members of the crew of the Easmey, Hampshire, inshore rescue boat, Helmsman Robert Faro and Roy Richards, have each been accorded the thanks of the R.N.L.I. inscribed on vellum for rescuing two people from a speedboat which capsized...
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Mary Roberts
FISHGUARD, PEMBROKESHIRE.—During a moderate N.N.E. gale and a heavy sea on the 2nd Feb., 1903, signals of distress were observed on the schooner Mary Roberts, of Carnarvon, which was lying in the roads. Rockets to assemble the crew were at...
Children at Ramsgate, Kent, Assisted the Local Ladies' Life-Boat Guild When They Staged a Carnival Last Year. a Banner Fastened to the Masts of Their Boat Stated: 'Ramsgate Ladies' Life-Boat Guild—
Children at Ramsgate, Kent, assisted the local ladies' life-boat guild when they staged a carnival last year.
A banner fastened to the masts of their boat stated: 'Ramsgate ladies' life-boat guild—we need your... - View image in PDF
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Janny
Margate, Kent. At 12.57 on the afternoon of the 31st of December, 1958, the coastguard passed on to the honorary secretary a message received through the North Foreland radio station that the General Post Office cable ship Ariel had received...
Wills and Hepworth Ltd
A fascinating history of the R.N.L.I., and a vivid account of the 'way in which our Life-boatmen carry out their vital service.
Told in easy to read, easy to understand terms and illustrated in full-colour...
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