LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Writing's on the Wall!
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Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
The Selsey Life-Boat on the Thames
THE new Life-boat for Selsey—of the Watson Cabin type—which during last winter was on temporary service at Cromer, made a trip up the Thames in July, after undergoing overhaul at the Storeyard, before she went to her station. She was manned...
Category: Articles
Tam o’ Shanter
APRIL 6TH - 7TH. - CLACTON, ESSEX. At 12.55 in the afternoon the coastguard reported that a barge was showing signals of distress about five miles off Clacton, and the Clacton motor life-boat Edward Z. Dresden was launched at 1.15. A...
When Rnlb Shoreline Was Due to Leave William Osborne's Yard at Littlehampton for Her Station Last August Her Shoreline Flag Had Not Arrived the 5Th Littlehampton Sea Scout Troop (A Group M
When RNLB Shoreline was due to leave William Osborne's yard at Littlehampton for her station last August her Shoreline flag had not arrived. The 5th Littlehampton Sea Scout Troop (a group member) was proud to present its flag to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
THE termination of another summer, with an even longer tale than usual of deaths from drowning, almost instinctively in- duces the reflection as to whether or not the proper measures to adopt in order to restore suspended animation are as...
Category: Articles
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the November, December and January Meetings of the Committee of Management
November Meeting.
Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire.—On the 2nd September a salvage party of six was marooned on the wreck of the Harvest Queen, owing to their boat breaking away and capsizing. Their plight was seen by a...
Category: Services
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXX. HUNSTANTON.—Licensed Victualler, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
A distinction should be made between old and new Hunstanton; the latter, commonly known by the name of Hunstanton St. Edmunds, is situate about a mile south...
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The Duchess of Kent at Plymouth and Padstow
H.R.H. THE DUCHESS OF KENT, President of the Institution, paid a visit to the West Country in May, 1952, and named the new life-boats at the Port of Plymouth and at Padstow.
The Port of Plymouth had a life- boat station as...
Category: Inaugurations