LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Then And Now
tHen AnD noW First-c lass service The RNLI has been an eyecatching subject for portrayal on stamps for decades. Here is a small selection from the past and a preview of a new set of stamps due to be issued on 13 March. you can order from an...
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The Life-Boatman's Log
Award to the Peterhead Coxswain THE Royal Humane Society has awarded its "Testimonial on Parch- ment" to Coxswain John Buchan McLean, of Peterhead, a gold medallist of the Institution, for diving fully clothed into Port Henry...
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Gudveig of Oslo (1)
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk; and Lowestoft, Suf- folk. At 4.59 on the morning of the 24th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary of the Gorleston station that the motor vessel Gudveig of Oslo...
One Advantage of the Floating Boathouse Is Its Portability - Burnham's.
One advantage of the floating boathouse is its portability - Burnham's. seen here, was berthed by the station's lifeboat, and Brighton's has been moved to a new berth in the marina by towing alongside the Atlantic.. - View image in PDF
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The City of Leeds Life-Boat
IN 1949 the Leeds branch of the Institution launched a special appeal for £10,000 to provide a life-boat to be named The City of Leeds. The appeal was under the patronage of the late Earl of Harewood, who contributed generously to it,...
Category: Donations
The Severn Class Lifeboat. the Whiteheads, for St.Mary's on the Isles of Scilly.
Main: Supporter Miss Olive Whitehead bequeathed the whole of her residuary estate to the lifeboat service with the request that it be used to fund a lifeboat named in memory of her parents.
The legacy amounted to around... - View image in PDF
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The Arklow Fishing Boat Pride of Kilmichael
APRIL 12TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO. WEXFORD. At 8.45 in the morning a fishing boat at anchor in the South Shear was seen to be flying a distress signal, and at 9.30 the motor life-boat Mabel Marion Thompson was launched. A north-westerly...
To the Help of a Submarine
The submarine "Universal" broke down in Cardigan Bay on the night of February 3rd. in a gale with a rough sea running and drifted up the bay for 60 miles. Four life-boats went out to her help, the St. David's boat, which helped...
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Some Ways of Raising Money
The Province of Northern Ireland improved its fund-raising in 1975 by 21 per cent; a sterling achievement in difficult times. The voluntary workers of Belfast raised no less than £11,000.
London flag day, Tuesday March...
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Stuck fast, then footloose
Hartlepool crew battled to save a 16-year-old boy stuck waist-deep in sand with a rapidly rising tide on 30 September 2011. The boy had got his foot caught when helping two younger members of his family from the water. The crew used a hose...
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