LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Drifter and A Fishing Boat (1)
DECEMBER 7TH MARGATE KENT, AND WALTON AND FRINTON ESSEX.
A drifter had run aground and a fishing boat was in difficulties, but the drifter refloated and a pilot boat took the fishing boat in tow.
The...
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BIDEFORD.—A new life-boat 34 feet long, and fitted to row either with six oars singlebanked, or twelve short oars double-banked, has been placed at Appledore, near Bideford, in lieu of a smaller one previously there. The cost of the boat was...
Category: Articles
Terra Nova, Girl Ann
Kirkcudbright - At 5 p.m. on 29th July, 1967, it was reported that a boat hadgone ashore and broken up on the north side of Ross Bay. It was thought that the casualty might be the local motor fishing vessel Girl Ann which was out fishing at...
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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Eastbourne: (Top) All the World and His Wife Came to Wish the New Rother Lifeboat Well (Above) the Moment of Naming (Left) Lisa Buckland Presents a Model of The
Eastbourne: (top) All the world and his wife came to wish the new Rother lifeboat well, (above) The moment of naming, (left) Lisa Buckland presents a model of The Duke of Kent to His Royal Highness.
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Category: Photographs
Antwerp Maritime Exhibition and Life-Saving Congress
AN International Maritime and Colonial Exhibition has been held at Antwerp this year, from April to October, on the occasion of the Centenary Celebrations of the Declaration of Belgian Independ- ence. Great Britain was one of the principal...
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The Rowing Boats Mercury and Blue Peter
MIDNIGHT SEARCH FOR MISSING ROWING BOATS Weymouth, Dorset. At 10.50 on the night of the 23rd April, 1962, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the owner of several rowing boats on the sea front had repotted that two of his...
The Institution and Ship Owners. A Comparison Between Life-Boat Services and Contributions
A COMPARISON BETWEEN LIFE-BOAT SERVICES AND CONTRIBUTIONS.
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I AM publishing here a list of the ships to the assistance of which the Life-boats have...
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Awards to Coxswains and Members of Life-Boat Crews
To JOHN MATTHEWS, on his retirement, after serving for 30 years as coxswain and 2| years as bowman of the Moelfre life-boat, a coxswain's certificate of service, a gratuity and a retirement allowance.
To WILLIAM II....
Category: Awards
The S.S. Domala and Jonge Willem
MARCH 2ND. - NEWHAVEN, SUSSEX.
At 5 P.M. the naval authorities reported that the S.S. Domala had been bombed by eriemy aircraft in the Channel, and that the Dutch steamer Jonge Willem was off Newhaven, with survivors on...