LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for 1874-75
THE wreck statistics of the twelve months ending in June, 1875, certainly record the most numerous casualties that have hitherto taken place in one year. The officers of H.M. Coastguard and Board of Trade have left not a single shipping ac-...
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Fast Afloat Boat 3
ON TRIAL - FAST AFLOAT BOAT PROTOTYPE TAKES TO THE WATER The RNLI must always have an eye of sea rescue many years ahead. 0 latest design of Fast Afloat Boat (R is designed to achieve even highi retaining - and even imprc standards of I...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1891
OF all the Blue Books printed year by year for " Her Majesty's Stationery Office," probably not one communicates such deeply interesting information as that to be found in the volume containing the elaborate Tables drawn up and...
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Rnli News
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Right Reverend Professor James A. Whyte, paid a visit to Aberdeen lifeboat station on 7 February.
The Moderator was introduced to Captain Brian Atkinson,...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st March, 1956 80,036 Notes of the Quarter SIR GODFREY BARIXG, who recently announced his...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
PETERHEAD, SCOTLAND.—The People's Journal No. 1 Life-boat was launched at noon on the 5th of January, 1886, some of the boats engaged in the haddock fishery having been overtaken by a strong gale of wind from the N.E. and. a heavy sea....
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The S.S. Primrose
BRONZE MEDAL SERVICE AT BALLYCOTTON JANUARY 30TH. - BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. In the early morning of the 27th of January, 1941, many mines came ashore in Ballycotton Bay, on the south coast of Ireland, and four of them exploded, doing...
Lord Coke, of Middlesborough
On the morn- ing of the 15th January, a man ran from Dunwich to Southwold to the house of the coxswain of the life-boat of the National Institution, and informed him that a boat was driving down from Dunwich with men in her, and was fast...
A Steamer
MONTROSE, FORFARSHIRE. The No.
'2 Life-boat, Marianne Atherstone, performed an excellent service on the 26th March, resulting in the saving of four lives. About 5 o'clock a steamer was seen approaching the harbour,...
Gem, of Hull
On the 8th January, during a strong westerly wind and heavy sea, a vessel was seen on shore on Carmarthen Bar with a signal of distress flying from her mast- head. The City of Manchester life-boat was quickly launched ; and, on approach- ing...