LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
An Adventurous Life
Man the Hopes (Hodder and Stoughton, 12s. (Jd.) is the autobiography of Mr.
Augustine Courtauld, a Vice-President and a member of the Committee of Management. It tells the story of an engrossing and adventurous life: of his...
Category: Articles
An Aeroplane (96)
AUGUST 20TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. An aeroplane had been reported down in the sea five miles N.E. of Winterton. The life-boat was launched at 1.54 P.M. and reached the position given at 3.10. There she saw and spoke to a...
An Aeroplane (6)
MARCH 29TH. - CRESSWELL, NORTHUMBERLAND.
An aeroplane, believed to be a German Heinkel bomber, had come down into the sea three-quarters of a mile east of the life-boat station, but nothing could be found. - Rewards,...
The Rnli Were Beneficiaries from An Open Day at Billingsgate Market London When the Public Were Invited to Watch Demonstrations and Buy Species Offish That They Would Not Necessarily Find At
The RNLI were beneficiaries from an open day at Billingsgate Market, London, when the public were invited to watch demonstrations and buy species offish that they would not necessarily find at their local fishmongers. Here Ronald Nichols is... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Norwegian Life-Boat Society. (From the Yorkshire Post, 15th June, 1898.)
IN a dock of the Exhibition grounds at the Fisheries Exhibition at Bergen—it is held in the Nygaard Park, which runs down to a river—there are four Life- boats. They are not to be known for Life-boats at a glance, being shaped and rigged in...
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Exe, of Exeter
During squally weather, on the 28th March, 1872, the barque Exe, of Exeter, went on the New- come Sand in a very dangerous position.
The Kessingland No. 1 Life-boat, the Bolton, was promptly launched to her as- sistance ;...
Living with the RNLI
On the role:
L: ‘I’m immensely proud of Gary’s role with the RNLI and am behind him 110%. I believe the commitment has to be from the families as well or it’s not possible to do it.’ G: ‘I’ve now been on the crew for 17...
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The English Sea Fisheries
THE sea fisheries of this country cannot but be a subject of interest to every one, •whether living on the sea-coast or inland, but more particularly must they be so to the friends of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT INSTITUTION, because of the...
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The Mail Steamer Lochearn
NOVEMBER 22ND. - BARRA ISLAND, HEBRIDES. During the morning the mail steamer Lochearn, of Oban, arrived in Castlebay harbour. A southerly gale was blowing, with a rough sea, and the steamer was unable to make the pier. She had to anchor in...
The S.S. Edirne
St. Peter Port, Guernsey.—At 2.31 in the morning on the 29th of January, 1950, Niton radio station wirelessed that the S.S. Edirne, of Istanbul (a vessel of 3,653 tons, with a crew of fifty, bound for Denmark with oil cake) had radioed that...