LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Sirenia
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE AND BROOKE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—On the afternoon of the 9th March, the ship Sirenia, of Glasgow, bound from San Francisco for Dunkirk with a cargo of wheat, stranded on Atherfield Ledge during a thick fog. The Life-boat...
Wendy Craig Draws the Winning Ticket for the Volvo
Wendy Craig draws the winning ticket for the Volvo. - View image in PDF
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When four friends went diving in Liverpool Bay last November they checked the weather and had all the right equipment, but a change in the weather, a faulty VHP radio and a marker buoy which didn't behave as it should conspired to put...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
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LIFE-BOATS AS AMBULANCES Lerwick, Shetlands.—At about 2.55 on the afternoon of the 8th of March, 1947, the Medical Officer of Health for the Shetlands, telephoned that a woman was seriously ill at Bardister, and must be taken at once to...
Commemorative Items and Events During 1974 By Joan Davies
ON MARCH 4, 1824, a meeting was held in the City of London Tavern, presided over by Dr Manners Sutton, Archbishop of Canterbury, at which it was resolved to form the body which has since come to be known as the Royal National Lifeboat...
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Below Left - the Considerable Damage
Below left - The considerable damage to the container ship. Photos: © Mike Pett. - View image in PDF
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1 CCl - Mersey class Ruby Clenf Saturday 12 September 1992 started dry with the threat of rain later, but fortunately not until the naming ceremony of the new Peel lifeboat Ruby Clery was almost over.
The Mersey class...
Category: Inaugurations
Legacies Received In 1900
FOR SPECIAL TRUST PURPOSES.
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Beach, Mrs. Sarah, James Street, W. 1000 - - Courtney, Mrs. Caroline, Exmouth . 1000 - - Hopwood, Samuel Weymouth, Esq., Queen...
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Six Men Were Rescued By Breeches Buoy from the Dutch Coaster
Six men were rescued by breeches buoy from the Dutch coaster Jan Brons which ran aground on Ardnamult Head in south-westerly gales on March I I , 1964. Stephen Whittle, then second coxswain, and Assistant Mechanic John Power volunteered to... - View image in PDF
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