LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Prevention of Wrecks and Saving Life from Shipwreck
WE have on different occasions in this Journal remarked on'what we conceived to be the imperfection, when taken as a whole, of the present system for rescuing shipwrecked persons from drowning; that whilst, in some localities, most...
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Stephen Whittle Coxswain of Dunmore East Lifeboat By Ray Kipling
DUNMORE EAST is a fishing port at the mouth of Waterford Harbour in southeastern Ireland, just off the busy shipping lanes leading from the Atlantic Ocean up St George's Channel and into the Irish Sea. The shore sweeps down to Hook Head...
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Punch, of Carnarvon & the Elizabeth, of Yarmouth
In the month of March the following excellent services were also rendered by the Caister small Life-boat, the Boys:— "While on a voyage from Newcastle to Dublin, the schooner Punch, of Carnarvon, was wrecked on the Barber Sands, off...
With Her Builders' Trials Completed the Prototype 47Ft Tyne Fast Slipway Lifeboat City of London
With her builders' trials completed, the prototype 47ft Tyne fast slipway lifeboat City of London set out on a circumnavigation of the British Isles as part of her development trials; during these trials lifeboatmen from a number of... - View image in PDF
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Flamingo, of Stavanger
Longhope, Orkneys, and Wick, Caithness-shire - At 11.27 a.m. on 26th January, 1967, it was learned that a vessel was transmitting a Mayday call off Pentland Skerries. The Longhope life-boat T.G.B. was launched at 11.45 in a strong east by...
Portrait of a Coxswain
COXSWAIN ROBERT BUCHAN of the Humber is the superintendent coxswain of the only full-time life-boat crew in Britain or Ireland. He was appointed coxswain in 1959 having served for seven years as a member of the crew. During six of those...
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Oregon, of Stonehaven
on 7th April, 1861, saved 4 men from the schooner Oregon, of Stonehaven.
Survivors of 1899 Disaster
THE only two living survivors ofthe Aldeburgh life-boat disaster in 1899 were guests of honour at a dinner given by Ipswich supporters of the Institution to the present crew of the Aldeburgh life-boat, and their wives, at Ipswich on the...
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The Duke of Kent
The Duke of Ken!. President of the Institution, visited Whitby, Staithes, Redcar and Teesmoulh lifeboat stations on Wednesday July 22. Travelling in a helicopter of the Queen's Flight, he arrived at Whi/bv Abliev where he was received b ... - View image in PDF
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Medallists of 1930-31
Front Row (left to right) : Coxswain Barnes, of Selsey and Bognor, Mrs. Polly Donkin, of Cullercoats, Coxswain Fenton, of St. Andrews, and Mr. John Cahill. of Tralee. Back Row : Coxswain Hood, of Hartlepool, Mr. J, J. Davies, Sen., Bowman of... - View image in PDF
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