LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
£2,136 from Austin Motors
Starting in March 1942 the Austin Motor Company gave the Institution during the war one shilling for each horse power of every engine which it built for ships' life-boats. These gifts made a total of £1,123. The company also held a...
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Putting global drowning on map
The lifeguards Mr and Mrs Painter met in The Gambia were among 30 amazing volunteers trained there by the RNLI in 2013.
The Gambian lifeguards also received some basic rescue equipment from the...
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An Aeroplane (154)
OCTOBER 6TH. - CLACTON - ON - SEA (AT BRIGHTLINGSEA), ESSEX. A British bomber had crashed near Jaywick and the life-boat found her, bottom upwards, but there was no trace of the crew. It was learned later that three of the airmen had swum...
A Vessel (15)
DEC. 24TH. - RAMSGATE, AND WALMER, KENT. Three men in a motor boat left Ramsgate to go and see the Mahratta wreck and had not returned YORK The Ramsgate life-boat searched throughout the night and again on Christmas morning and the Walmer...
Suandra (1)
Fire HM COASTGUARD INFORMED the honorary secretary of Cardigan ILB station at 1224 on Wednesday, June 16, that a vessel was on fire four miles north of Cardigan Head. There was moderate visibility and a light westerly...
London Boat Show
'BRING ME SUNSHINE' was the theme of the 27th London International Boat Show, set against a Caribbean background, at Earls Court from January 8 to 18, so who else could have opened it but Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise? Always good...
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Central Appeals Committee
ARRANGEMENTS are now well under way for a Midnight Matinee at the Victoria Palace, London, on Friday, March 8.
The committee responsible is working under the chairmanship of Lady Aitken.
By the time you...
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Life-Boat Exhibitions In 1938
THE Belfast branch of the Institution had a stand at the Royal Ulster Agricultural Show on 25th-28th May.
Models of pulling and sailing and motor life-boats were shown, photographs of famous coxswains and wrecks, and items...
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Second Coxswain's Immense Courage'
SECOND Coxswain Charles I. Crockford, of the Tenby life-boat, has been awarded a framed letters of thanks, signed by the Chairman of the Institution.
Admiral Sir Wilfrid Woods, G.B.E., K.C.B., D.S.O., for taking the...
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Lifeboat Services
Heroism and tragedy as ship goes ashore in 50ft breakers One Gold Medal Five Bronze Medals Two Thanks on Vellum with a 3,000-ton cargo vessel just yards off a rockstrewn coastline, and being driven inexorably ashore by breaking seas almost...
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