LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1897
THE BOARD OP TRADE have recently! issued their very interesting Annual Blue Book, furnishing abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping casualties occurring on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom. The statistics now...
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Lifeboat Services
TIME OF THE ESSENCE AS TOW IS PASSED Eight saved from yacht dismasted and close to rocks in onshore gale The coxswain of Blyth lifeboat, Keith Barnard, has been awarded the RNLI's Thanks of the Institution on Vellum for saving the lives...
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Life-Boat Societies
The Royal National Life-boat Institution agreed to a request made at the International Life-boat Conference that it should as a distributing centre for information which may be of general interest to all Life-boat Societies. The Institution...
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Lieut.-Commander Henrik De Booy
Lieut.-Commander Henrik de Booy, an honorary life governor of the Institution since October, 1933, died on yth September, 1964, at the age of 97. He was former secretary of the Royal North and South Holland Life-boat...
Category: Obituaries
An Aeroplane (29)
Nov. 6TH. - FRASERBURGH, ABERDEENSHIRE.
It had been reported that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea, but the life-boat could find nothing. - Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..
An Aeroplane (28)
JULY 21ST. - SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.
During the evening of the 20th the life-boat crew were assembled as an aeroplane had been reported down in the sea, but the call was cancelled. Later flashes were reported and the...
An Aeroplane (28)
JUNE 2ND. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had come down in the sea, one mile E.N.E. of Easington, but the life-boat’s help was not needed.- Permanent paid crew..
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN 226 CHAIRMAN'S MESSAGE 227 TWENTY-SEVEN HOURS ON SERVICE . . . . 228 AWARD TO WEYMOUTH DOCTOR 231 TWO SUSSEX IRB RESCUES . . 232 H.R.H. PRINCESS MARINA 234 WHY PUT...
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Bosun and Motor Fishing Vessel Gentlemaid
Two under tow AT 1209 on August 21, 1973, the honorary secretary of Sheerness, Isle of Sheppey, was informed by Warden Point Coastguard that a yacht had been sighted aground off the Red Sand area, bearing 050° three to four miles from...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
RAMSGATE AND BROADSTAIRS, KENT.—On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her...
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