LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Disasters at Southport and St. Anne's
SINCE the publication of the last number of the LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL, terrible disas- ters have befallen the crews of the Life- boats at Southport and St. Anne's, on the coast of Lancashire, the full details of which are given in the...
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From the Empire Overseas.
Many gifts have shown the generous interests of British people overseas in the life-boat service at home. The Government School at Broken Hill, Rhodesia, which has about a hundred scholars, has sent £50. The Kenya War Welfare Fund has...
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Notes of the Quarter
ON 21st January, 1970, Fraserburgh life-boat capsized with the loss of five members of her crew. There was only one survivor, Mr. Jackson Buchan. On 25th March Mr. Goronwy Roberts, Minister of State, Board of Trade, stated in the House of...
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A War-Time Journey Up the East Coast (1)
A War-Time Journey Up The East Coast. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal
SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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What Happens to Old Life-Boats?
SOMETIMES the story is put about that the R.N.L.I. is in the habit of burning life-boats which have been involved in accidents. The truth of the matter is that on a few occasions in the past, when life-boat hulls have been wrecked beyond...
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Captain Hans Hansson
Captain Hans Hansson was formerly Director and then Chairman of the Swedish Lifeboat Service.
He was made an Honorary Life Governor of the RNLI in 1972..
Category: Obituaries
The Wireless Room
The top picture on the opposite page shows the cabin, with the chart table, and beneath the table a locker containing the cooking stove. The wireless room is on the other side of the partition at the back of the chart... - View image in PDF
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The Annual Meetings 2002
2002 Annual General Meeting and Presentation of Awards Another busy year for the RNLI saw crews answer 6,882 calls and rescue 6,918 people.
Education and safety work is starting to show results and successful trial schemes...
Category: Meetings
An Aeroplane (60)
AUGUST 14TH. - MARGATE, KENT. At 12.15 P.M., during an air-raid, a British aeroplane was seen from the life-boathouse to crash about three miles to the northward.
A westerly breeze was blowing, with a choppy sea. The crew...