LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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 Caister Life-Boat Disaster
THE terrible disaster which overtook one of the Life-boats belonging to the Institution, stationed at Caister on the coast of Norfolk, in November last will be fresh in the minds of our readers.
The expressions of sympathy...
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Keep on Running By Heather Deane Deputy Public Relations Officer Rnli
THE AMERICAN obsession with health and physical fitness has spread, to a certain degree, to this country in recent years, resulting in the popularity of jogging as a sport for growing numbers of people.
Members of...
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This Remarkable Picture By Peter Foskett
This remarkable picture by Peter Foskett aboard the Lowestoft lifeboat gives some idea of the atrocious conditions during the service.
Red House Lugger can seen in the lee of the ferry Norkin while Aldeburgh's Mersey... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED 1824 SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER...
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A Christmas Pantomime 'Aladin' Performed By the Little Theatre Charity Pantomime Company Raised £2000 for Teesmouth Lifeboat Mr R E H Winterschladen Manager of the Company Toge
A Christmas pantomime, 'Aladin', performed by the Little Theatre Charity Pantomime Company raised £2,000 for Teesmouth lifeboat. Mr R. E. H. Winterschladen, manager of the company, together with members of the cast, presented... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea of Montrose & the Amerecan Ship Joseph Fish
Several services have been j performed this year by the valuable Life- boat on this station, the Bradford, in conjunction with her handy and ever- ready consort, tho harbour steam-tug Vulcan. Tho first was that rendered on the 7th January....
The S.S. Brookside
Walton and Frinton, Essex.—At 3.15 on the morning of the 31st of March, 1954, the Walton-on-the-Naze coastguard rang up to say that he had intercepted a wireless message from the S.S.
Brookside, of Sunderland, which said...
The Central Appeals Committee
THE C.A.C. is hoping to arrange a crossword puzzle for inclusion in the Journal. At the time of going to press plans had not been finalised but further details will be given in the July issue.
Many people gave up weekend...
Category: Committee
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Thomas William Read, of Rams- gate, who retired last year. He was appointed second coxswain about 1915, when the station was administered by the Board of Trade, and in 1924, two years after the...
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