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Competitive Trials With Pulling Life-Boats

Date: August 1893

Volume: 15

Issue: 169

ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION carried out at Lowestoft in 1892 a series of competitive trials and tests with, sailing Life-boats the details of which were subsequently published. The trials with the various types of pulling Life-boats...

Category: Articles

A Rowing Boat (3)

Date: December 1954

Volume: 33

Issue: 370

Fowey, Cornwall.—At 4.45 on the after- noon of the 18th of August, 1954, the Polruan coastguard telephoned that two boys were in difficulties in a rowing boat three miles south of Fowey. At 5.28 the life-boat C.D.E.C. put'out in a flood...

The S.S. Kabinda

Date: 1939

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1939

DEC. 8TH. - WALMER, AND RAMSGATE, KENT. At 8.32 A.M. a message was received at Walmer from the Deal coastguard that a Belgian steamer had stranded on the Goodwin Sands, north of the wreck of the Mahratta.

A whole S.S.W....

A Life-Boat Day In Floods

Date: November 1927

Volume: 26

Issue: 292

LIFE-BOAT DAY in Chippenham, Wilts., was held on September 16th, and in spite of the fact that the Kiver Avon was ten feet above its normal level, and the centre of the town flooded, the collectors went about their work undismayed and...

Category: Articles

A Steam Trawler

Date: June 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 318

•—• 17th January.

A steam trawler had stranded and her crew were rescued by the life-saving apparatus while the life-boat played her searchlight on the trawler. The owners, Plymouth Trawlers, Ltd., presented a clock to the...

Elephants and beer goggles

Date: Autumn 2011

Volume: 61

Issue: 597 Lifeboat Magazine Autumn 2011

Trying to persuade teenagers that water safety is cool isn’t easy but 20-year-old volunteer Tery Connor has it sussed …

‘I have a passion for working with young people and considerable...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Societies Abroad

Date: December 1957

Volume: 34

Issue: 382

The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Confereri that it should act as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Socien The Institution...

Category: Articles

From the Fighting Services.

Date: March 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 15

Last year the three fighting services, with their women's services, gave the Lifeboat Service more than ever before, £25,508. That is £6,123 more than in 1942..

Category: Articles

Boy Leslie

Date: September 1964

Volume: 38

Issue: 409

RED FOR DANGER Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 5.32 p.m. on 9th May, 1964, the coastguard told the honorary secretary that the cabin cruiser Boy Leslie was burning red flares on the outer edge of the Newcombe sand. The cabin cruiser's engine had...

Mr K M Aldridge, MBE

Date: Winter 1988

Volume: 50

Issue: 503

Mr K M Aldridge, MBE honorary secretary at Weymouth lifeboat station from 1951 to 1975. He was honorary treasurer from 1940 to 1951..

Category: Obituaries