LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Surrounded By His Crew Fraserburgh Lifeboat Coxswain
Surrounded by his crew, Fraserburgh lifeboat coxswain, Captain John Sutherland, is presented with a maroon case full of money raised for the station by lifeboat enthusiast John Murdoch (r). In front of the group is a model made by John... - View image in PDF
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The Ladies of Caister
THE presentation to Miss Alice Brown, vice president of the Caister on Sea ladies' life-boat guild, of a silver badge has created something of a record. For her family now holds one gold badge and three silver...
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The South Rock Lightvessel (1)
Cloughey, and Donaghadee, Co. Down.— At three o'clock in the morning of the 31st of January, 1950, the Tara coast- guard telephoned the Cloughey life- boat authorities that the South Rock lightvessel had fired a white rocket. At 3.15 he...
The Norwegan Barque Tamworth
On the 30th October the services of this life-boat were again called into requisition.
The Norwegian barque Tamworth having grounded on the Trunk Hill Bank, 3 miles from the shore, the wind blowing a perfect hurricane at...
"Heroes of the Sea" Film
THIS film, which was presented to the Institution in 1931, by British Inter- national Pictures, and was first shown in February of that year, has during the following four years been shown in 415 cinemas, and has collected for the...
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The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888, and the Rules Framed Under Its Provisions
OUR readers may remember that a recent number of this Journal contained an article on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea. The recommendations of that Committee were in due course embodied in a...
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Above: the Aneroid Barometer That Featured In the August 1882
Above: The aneroid barometer that featured in the August 1882 issue of The Life-Boat Journal. - View image in PDF
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A Beautifully Written Letter from Susan Crook Brought the News That the Children Oj Beach Road Country Primary School Litherland Liverpool Seen Here With Brian Ste
A beautifully written letter from Susan Crook brought the news that the children oj Beach Road Country Primary School, Litherland, Liverpool, seen here with Brian Stevenson, ADOS(NW). had beaten the target they had set themselves to reach by... - View image in PDF
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The Fund Raisers
Fair weather or foul During Hoylake lifeboat station's open day last August it was a case of 'What shall we look at first?' And with so much to see and do it must have been a hard choice for many of the 10,000 people who went...
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The S.S. Roldal
GORLESTON.—Sockets and guns were fired by the Cockle and Middle Cross Sand and St. Nicholas Light-vessels, oa the morning of the 7th November. A strong gale was then blowing from S.W.
by S., the sea was very heavy and the...