LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Merchant Shipping Act. Second Article
Is proposing in our last Number a further consideration of this Act, we stated that those portions of it which have to do with the prevention of loss of life from shipwreck would naturally arrange themselves under two heads, the one...
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How Can I Help the Institution? A Note for Keen Honorary Secretaries and Workers
II* PLACE AUX DAMES As I pointed out in my first article, no Branch will be really effective—though it may, perchance, be technically effi- cient as a Station—nor will it exercise the far-reaching influence which should belong to it unless...
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Branches of the National Life-Boat Institution, With Names of the Contributors
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Category: Branches
Branches of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, With Names of the Contributors
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Category: Branches
Taking the wheel
‘Being able to do something for someone – giving them that extra chance – you just feel pleased that you’ve done it,’ says Jennie Court, before our interview is brought to a sudden halt. We’re interrupted by the shrill ringing of a bell from...
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An Aeroplane (6)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Rian, of Groningen and The Dutch Minesweeper Jan Van Gelder
FEBRUARY 3RD. - RAMSEY, ISLE OF MAN. At 2.45 in the morning the coastguard reported vessels in collision three miles east-by-north of Queen’s Pier. The motor life-boat Lady Harrison was launched at 3.40. The south-westerly wind was moderate,...
The Array of Bottles and Other Prizes (Below)
The array of bottles and other prizes (below) proved an irresistible draw to those who bought a ticket in a raffle organised by Shoreline member John Regin of Ottershaw, Surrey. Ever since he joined Shoreline he has been planning a... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Sailing Boat Crackerjack
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At 1.57 on the afternoon of the 12th of July, 1959, the coastguard informed the assistant honorary secretary that a yacht had capsized six hundred yards off shore in Lydstep haven. At 2.1 the life-boat Henry Comber...
The English Fisheries
As it is to fishermen that we must look in most cases to man our life-boats in time of need, it seems desirable to place on record in the pages of this Journal, the number of fishing-boats at each station around the coasts of England, and...
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