LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Jobs for the Girls
The women launchers at Boulmer, Northumberland. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor? How about Butcher, Baker and Candlestick Maker? Or, in the case of the RNLI, shore helper, medic, lifeboat crew and press officer? Mention any of these jobs and...
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List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1861
Jan. 1,1861.—The brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham, was wrecked on the "Whitley Sands, Northumberland, during a strong gale, with a heavy sea and showers of snow and sleet. .The Cullercoats life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was...
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The Truck's Four-Tonne Crane Makes the Task of Loading and Unloading Inshore Lifeboats
The truck's four-tonne crane makes the task of loading and unloading inshore lifeboats and other heavy equipment a one-man-job.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
News from the Branches
Annual Meetings : Station Branches.
BLYTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).-—On 1st March, Alderman George E. Tynemouth, Chairman of the Branch, presiding.
The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...
Category: Branches
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SBA, NORTHUMBERLAND.
—A signal of distress was made by a vessel northward of Newbiggin point, on the morning of the 9th Jan. 1889. The wind was blowing a gale from the S.E., the sea was very rough, and the...
Category: Services
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the National Life-Boat Institution In 1882
Jan. 3.—Fire men put off in a boat at great risk arid rescued eight men whose boa|, had been driven away from Island Crone, Co. Don- egal, by a sudden gale of wind from the S.W., on the 2nd January, leaving them on the island —which is...
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Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1896
Jan. 9. — Voted 42. to four fishermen for putting off in a boat and saying four men whose boat bad been capsized while returning to tbeir vessel, the Baron Hill, of Liverpool, which was lying off Exmouth, in a strong W. gale on the 4th...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE RNLI INQUIRY into the capsizes of Barra Island and Islay lifeboats off the west coast of Scotland last November, reported on page 6, has concluded that both lifeboats were overwhelmed by heavy breaking seas in violent storm conditions...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—At about one o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday, 1st October, 1882, the brigantine Eugenie Auguste, of Castletown, bound for that port from Runcorn with a cargo of coal, was observed to be labouring heavily and...
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NOVEMBER 14TH. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE. Airmen from a crashed bombing aeroplane had landed on a sandbank, but were rescued by another vessel before the life-boat arrived. - Rewards, £15 16s.