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...
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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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,...
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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...
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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