LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Tkefigwa refer to the number* of the Life-boaa OetaUet on pages 42-B3.) A Friend, per Pembroke Denman, Hon. Mrs. Jos., 152. Jacomb-Hood, Miss E. H., Roberts, Mr. W., the late,...
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Whitby: the Lifeboat Station and Her People By Joan Davies
A HAVEN OR REFUGE on a dangerous coast along which small sailing ships in their hundreds once traded between London and the north; a commercial port for small merchant ships; a harbour for boats fishing the unpredictable North Sea; now a...
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Why She ? It Seems Just As a Term of Familiarity, Affection and Endearment, Perhaps Encouraged By the Original Frequency of Obviously Female Figureheads on the Ships of Old.
Why she ? It seems just as a term of familiarity, affection and endearment, perhaps encouraged by the original frequency of obviously female figureheads on the ships of old.. - View image in PDF
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An Open Boat, Elizabeth and Mary Helen
CARDIGAN.—At daylight on the 16th April, intelligence was received at this station that. 4 men had been blown out to sea in an open boat just before dark on the previous day,'and it was hoped they had been able to get to Cardigan...
Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1857
Jan. 17,1856.—The brig Bonnie Marie, of Nantes, was observed in the night to hare a signal of distress flying. The Portmadoc life-boat, which belongs to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, manned by 12 men, put off to the vessel's...
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Tribute to the Brave
Tribute to the brave The day of the annual presentation of awards at the Royal Festival Hall ends with an after-theatre supper at the Rubens Hotel for all the medallists and their families. Mrs Anne Wall has very generously made this...
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An Auster Aircraft
Dungeness, and Dover, Kent ; Hast- ings and Eastbourne, Sussex. At 5.25 on the afternoon of the 7th of February, 1960, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary at Eastbourne that an Auster aircraft was missing on a flight from Lympne...
A Rescue In An Irish Curragh
ON the 2nd September, 1932, two men had gone out from Dooey, Co. Donegal, in a curragh, to lift lobster-pots. The wind increased, and a heavy sea swamped and capsized the curragh.
Their cries for help were heard, and two...
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Clacton Co-Operative Band Was Just One of the Attractions on Clacton Pier for a Highly Successful 'Charity Nile' Last June Free Rides on the Funfair Cabaret and Two Fre
Clacton Co-operative Band was just one of the attractions on Clacton Pier for a highly successful 'Charity Nile' last June. Free rides on the funfair, cabaret and two free dolphin shows helped to make the evening a success. More than... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs