LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Spurn Life-Boat Crew (Bradford's Own) As Guard of Honour to the Prince of Wales
WHEN the Prince of Wales visited Bradford on 30th May, the Spurn Lifeboat Crew whose new Motor Boat is being provided out of the special fund raised in Bradford, and is to be named after the city played a prominent part in the welcome given...
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Living on the edge
Our coastlines may appear as fi rm lines on a map but they are constantly changing. A European Commission report in 2004 stated that over 17% of the UK and nearly 20% of the RoI coastline is eroding, challenging the very existence of some...
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An Outboard Motor Boat
Port Erin, Isle of Man.—-At 2.40 in the afternoon, on the 16th of September, 1950, the coxswain reported that two hours earlier two men had set out in an outboard motor boat to rescue a dog trapped on the cliffs north of Fleshwick beach....
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1902
WITHIN the last few weeks we have received from the Board of Trade their annual Blue Book, furnishing in a tho- roughly comprehensive and intelligible form very full and detailed statistics of the shipping casualties "on or near"...
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The S.S. Pass of Glenogle
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 9.20 on the night of the 28th of October, 1954, the coxswain overheard a message from the Humber radio station to the port doctor stating that the S.S. Pass of Glenogle, of London, needed a doctor to attend her captain....
An Aeroplane (3)
Lytham-St. Annes, Lancashire; New Brighton No. 2, Cheshire ; Kirkcudbright; Douglas, Peel, Port Erin, Port St. Mary and Ramsey, Isle of Man.—21st January.
These eight life-boats searched for a missing aeroplane without...
Life-Boat Families. The Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, Northumberland
By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...
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The S.S Lilian
About 110011 on the 6th July the Coastguard fired the Life-boat assembly signal, and in response the crew quickly mustered, launched the boat, and at once pro- ceeded to the s.s. Lilian, of West Hartlepool, which was ashore in a very...
An Enemy Submarine
MARCH 20TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE.
About 7.30 in the morning a telephone message was received from Kilchoman coastguard that a vessel was ashore about half a mile north of Coull Point, Islay. A strong north-west wind...
While the Choir of Grey Court School Ham Sang Carols for An Hour Richmond Station a Collection of £114 Was Taken for the Rnli By the 14Th Richmond Sea Scouts (Group Shoreline Membe
While the choir of Grey Court School, Ham, sang carols for an hour Richmond station, a collection of £114 was taken for the RNLI by the 14th Richmond Sea Scouts (group Shoreline members). Altogether Richmondwith- Kew branch raised £... - View image in PDF
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