LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Trial of the "Percy" Life-Boat
A trial of the life-boat designed by Mr. PEAKE, one of the Northumberland Life- Boat Committee, and built under his superin- tendence, by order of the Lords Commis- sioners of the Admiralty, in Her Majesty's Dockyard at Woolwich, for the...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
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Mahe
Sennen Cove, Cornwall - At 6.59 p.m.
on 16th April, 1969, it was learnt that a two-masted schooner yacht had broken down about one mile south of Tol Pedn. The life-boat was requested to stand by. The yacht then resumed her...
Three of a Kind
West Kirby's D class, Thomas Jefferson, and Hoylake's Mersey, Lady of Hilbre, joined New Brighton's Atlantic, Rock Light, and sailed in formation past The Magazines, site of the earliest RNLI station on the Wirral and also where... - View image in PDF
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Society of Lloyd's Register
CAn event interesting to many in the shipping world took place on the 5th of October in the presence of the Com- mittee of Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping Society. The whole of their extensive staff of Surveyors, in this...
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The Screw Steamer Benjamin Whitworth, of Middlesborough
On the 14th November both the Life- boats on the Caister station, as well as the Yarmouth No. 1 Life-boat, the Mark Lane, went off to the assistance of the screw-steamer Benjamin Whitworth, of Middlesborough, which had grounded on the Cross...
(Right) Cyril Watts With His Wife Rita on Board Centaur 731 Eilean Sitheil In Which Last Summer He Completed a Sponsored Circumnavigation of Britain Starting from the Br
(Right) Cyril Watts, with his wife Rita, on board Centaur 731, Eilean Sitheil, in which last summer he completed a sponsored circumnavigation of Britain, starting from the Bristol Channel; he expects to raise £1,000 for the RNLI. Mr... - View image in PDF
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The Sale of Table Lamps Made By Mr a W Hawkes of Ipswich Has Now Passed the 300 Mark a Note About His Lamps Appears on This Page
The sale of table lamps made by Mr. A. W. Hawkes, of Ipswich, has now passed the 300 mark. A note about his lamps appears on this page.. - View image in PDF
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer at Gorleston
A visit in December, 1938 With Sir John Simon are Coxswain Charles A. Johnson, on his left, and officials of the branch. - View image in PDF
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The First of the Atlantic 21S,
The first of the Atlantic 21s, and the forerunner of all rigid inflatables now widely used for commercial and leisure purposes.
Developed at Atlantic College and using a rigid buoyant floor surrounded by a continuous... - View image in PDF
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