LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1899
TH« people of a maritime nation like Great Britain should be especially in- terested in any statistics relating to ships and sailors, and such matters are it may be assumed of particular importance to the friends and supporters of the...
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A Great Seaman
THE life of Sir Henry Oliver, most appropriately called A Great Seaman and written by Sir William James (H. F. and G. Witherby, 18,9.), is a fascinating book, full of anecdotes of an adventurous career, mostly taken from his own notes and...
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A Sailboard
Humane Society awards for crew members Hunstanton - East Division Two members of Hunstanton's lifeboat crew have received Royal Humane Society awards for rescuing a windsurfer - with the station's launching tractor.
Ray Oliver: Bowman and Centre-Forward
Honorary Secretary, Cullercoats and Whitley Bay Branch THE crew of the Cullercoats life-boat and the people of Cullercoats and Whitley Bay are justly proud of their bowman, Ray Oliver. Not only is Ray a first-class officer in the boat, but...
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The Annual Meeting
THE Annual Meeting was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 26th of April, 1950, with Sir Godfrey Baring, Bt., chairman of the Committee of Management, in the chair.
H.R.H. the Duchess of Kent, Presi- dent of the...
Category: Meetings
Centenaries of Life-Boat Stations
IN 1957 three life-boat stations celebrated the centenary of their foundation.
These were the stations at Great Yarmouth & Gorleston, Caister and Wicklow.
Caister can claim, among other distinctions,...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1908
No Blue Book issued by a Government department is more interesting or more important than that issued annually by the Board of Trade dealing, by means of " Abstracts " of returns, with all the shipping casualties which each year...
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When the Swiss Cargo Ship Nyon (5,000) Tons Ran Aground Near St. Abbs in November, 1958, the Local Life-Boat Provided the Longest Service by one of the Institution's Life-Boats - 11 Days and Nights
When the Swiss cargo ship Nyon (5,000) tons ran aground near St. Abbs in November, 1958, the local life-boat provided the longest service by one of the Institution's life-boats - 11 days and nights.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Past and Present
50 years ago From the pages of THE LIFEBOAT, October 1938 issue A New Medal for Gallantry SINCE the Institution was founded the head of the Sovereign has appeared on the obverse of the medals which it awards for gallantry. The first medals,...
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Swimming
FROM time to time the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has endeavoured to keep before the public eye the neces- sity for increased efforts to promote the extension of the art of swimming, and in doing this it has only been acting up to...
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