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Prize Winning Essay

Date: March 1956

Volume: 34

Issue: 375

A competition open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held again last year.

The subject set was: "Why does our country need a...

Category: Articles

Top gear

Date: Autumn 2008

Volume: 61

Issue: 585

In February 1858, the oar-powered Southwold lifeboat capsized in heavy surf. The 15 crew wearing lifebelts were all saved but records show ‘three unfortunate gentlemen who had … neglected to put on lifebelts, lost their lives’. Technology...

Category: Articles

Some Ways of Raising Money

Date: Autumn 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 482

A Welsh Folk Night was held last August at the Royal Pier Pavilion, Aberystwyth, to raise funds for the station's new lifeboat. Soloists, including Helmsman Alan Blair, provided the Welsh flavour but the evening ended with a hilarious...

Category: Articles

Fraserhurgh: When a Job Needs Doing By Georgette Purches

Date: Summer 1986

Volume: 50

Issue: 497

THE TOWN OF FRASERBURGH stands facing the North Sea and the Moray Firth and the rocky dangerous coast runs away south to Peterhead and Aberdeen and westwards towards Inverness. It is one of the major fishing harbours in the north east of...

Category: Articles

Bookshelf

Date: Winter 1998

Volume: 56

Issue: 543

Lifeboat station histories The Story of the Littlehampton lifeboats.

(updated 2nd edition) by Jeff Morris published by the author This volume is an updated second edition of one of a popular series of booklets produced by...

Category: Articles

Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Appeal

Date: February 1897

Volume: 16

Issue: 183

SUPPORTED SOLELY BT VOLtWTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.

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Bra ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PBINCB OF WALKS, K.O.

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Category: Advertisement

Tijl Uilenspiegel (4)

Date: Summer 1989

Volume: 51

Issue: 509

Six lifeboats in search for missing Belgian trawler The new Tyne class lifeboat at Douglas, Isle of Man, had a testing time during her first service, in a search for a missing Belgian trawler which lasted for 11 hours in Force 7 winds and...

Letters

Date: Winter 1977

Volume: 44

Issue: 459

Re-count. . .

The letter from the honorary secretary of Bodmin and District branch, published in the autumn 1976 issue of THE LIFEBOAT, amused us all here in Trowbridge because the report closely followed our own flag day...

Category: Correspondence

Flying Mist

Date: January 1870

Volume: 07

Issue: 75

On the 3rd De- cember, during a strong gale from S.S.E., and in very thick weather, the steamer Flying Mist brought information from Car- raidale, thirteen miles N.'E. of Campbeltown, N.B., that the barque William Gillies, of Greenock,...

Coxswain William Stephen, of Montrose

Date: June 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 298

Coxswain William Stephen, of Montrose, died on 16th December last, at the age of sixty-seven. He had been in the service of the Institution for fortyeight years. In 1913 he was appointed Coxswain of the Montrose No. 2 Lifeboat, and then in...

Category: Obituaries