LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 2nd Jan., 1873: THOMAS CHAPMAN, Esq., F.R.S., V.P., in the Chair.
Head and approved the Minutes of the previous Meeting, and those of the Finance and Corre- spondence, and "Wreck and Reward Sub-Com-...
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Boathouses in fact and fiction:
Daphne du Maurier
• Her father bought a boathouse at Bodinnick, Cornwall, to convert intoa holiday cottage.
• She wrote sections of Frenchman’s Creek in a Coastguard hut above Lantic Bay.<...
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A £338 Cheque Is Handed to Cullercoats Honorary Secretary
A £338 cheque is handed to Cullercoats honorary secretary, Mr R. J. Taylor, by Mr E. Armstrong manager of the Bay Hotel. Between them stand Crew Members Raymond Taylor, David Blackman and Geoffrey Nugent who had helped raised some of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The First of the 1909 Silver Medal Services at Fraserburgh: the Lifeboat Anna Maria Lee Is Manoeuvered In Close to the Fishing Boat Henry and Elizabeth of Nairn Be
The first of the 1909 silver medal services at Fraserburgh: the lifeboat Anna Maria Lee is manoeuvered in close to the fishing boat Henry and Elizabeth of Nairn before her six remaining crew are pulled to safety.. - View image in PDF
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Award of Medals, Etc
The following is a list of the principal cases in which Rewards have been granted for saving life, by the National Shipwreck Institution, during the year 1851 :— January 2.—The emigrant barque Edmund, wrecked 19th Nov., at Kilkee, on the... - View image in PDF
Category: Medals, Photographs
Bookshelf
The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats by A. K. Oliver and J. C. Harrison The Shoreham Harbour Lifeboats was first compiled by Anthony Oliver, now the RNLI's deputy head of fundraising and marketing, nearly 30 years ago but the station's...
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His Royal Highness Prince Philip One of the First Visitors to the Rnli Stand Was Shown the Atlantic 21 By Major-General Ralph Farrant Chairman of the Institution and An Il
His Royal Highness Prince Philip, one of the first visitors to the RNLI stand, was shown the Atlantic 21 by Major-General Ralph Farrant, chairman of the Institution, and an ILB crew member from Southwold, Roger Trigg.. - View image in PDF
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1883
Jan. 4.—Voted 31. to three fishermen for putting off in a boat and saving at some risk, the crew, consisting of four men, of the Norwegian sciiooner Johanna, which was wrecked on Car Carrig Rock, off the coast of Fifeshire, during a whole...
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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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