LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

SEPTEMBER 25TH. - LONGHOPE , ORKNEYS. Vessels had been reported in collision and flares had been seen, but nothing was found. - Rewards, £10 18s..

WITH THE placing of an order for two new steel life-boats, the first of their kind, the R.N.L.I.'s major programme of new construction has been significantly advanced. The two new boats, which are each 50 feet in length, are being built...

Order by phone: 01273 493 393 quoting 23T02 with your credit/debit card number. By fax: 01273 491774 By post: complete the coupon and send it with your credit/debit card details or cheque to: Peter Christian, 25 Mackley Estate, Henfield Road...

WILLIAM FLEMING, former coxswain of the Gorleston life-boat, died on the 30th of September, 1954, at the age of 89.

He was born in 1865 and first served as a member of the Gorleston crew before he was twenty. He became...

Wicklow.

ON the 29th August the s.s. Lynburn, of Workington, while bound from Cork to Whitehaven with a cargo of timber, struck a mine in the vicinity of the North Arklow Light Vessel. The Wicklow Motor Life-boat...

IN connexion with the Rye Harbour Life-boat disaster on 10th November, when the whole of the Crew, seventeen in number, lost their lives, Memorial Certificates have been awarded—in addition to the pensions and allowances mentioned...

IT will be remembered by our Readers that on I the 25th November last the crew of the East- bourne Life-boat performed a very meritorious service. We are alluding to the rescue, under exceptionally trying circumstances, of the crew...

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