LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Charity Or Piracy?
A CINEMA which had helped the In- stitution by showing one of its films asked in return if the Institution could lend it a flag with skull and crossbones.
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Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
NORTH SUNDEHLAND.— At 2 P.M. on the 1st January 1901 the Life-boat Thomas Bewick was launched and brought ashore the Crew of four men of the ketch Pallas, of Jersey, which had stranded on the Longstone rock, where she became a total...
Category: Services
Swedish Life-Boat Jubilee
THE jubilee celebrations of the Swedish Life-boat Society were held at Gothenburg from the 17th to the 19th of May. Captain V. M. Wyndham-Quin, Deputy Chairman of the Committee of Management, and Colonel A. D.
Burnett Brown...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
STAITHES.—A sudden gale of wind from E.S.E. arose on the morning of the 14th March, 1896, and a heavy sea sprung up, endangering the safety of the fishing- cobles, which had proceeded to sea at daybreak. The Life-boat Jonathan Stott put off...
Category: Services
List of Forthcoming Life-Boat Days
THE following lists show the of Life-boat Days in the various districts, and also those places where Life-boat Days have been arranged but the dates have not yet been definitely fixed owing to the uncertainty caused by the present industrial...
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A Rescue from a Fort In the Mersey
ON the afternoon of the 22nd of September, a south-westerly gale was blowing in the mouth of the Mersey with rain squalls and breaking seas twenty feet high. In those heavy seas the military authorities were afraid for the safety of -one of...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Launches on Service
Lifeboat launches on service during the months March, April and May, 1974 Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire April 13.
Aldeburgb, Suffolk March 11.
Angle, Dyfed March 15, 28, April 13 (2) and...
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Ceremonies
Eastbourne- Mersey Royal Thames Monday 6 September 1993 dawned fair over the Sovereign Harbour where Eastbourne's new Mersey class was to be named and dedicated by HRH Princess Michael of Kent.
The Princess was greeted...
Category: Inaugurations
Lifeboat Appeals
North East A Tyneside lifeboat appeal has been launched in the North East under the patronage of Their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Northumberland to contribute towards the cost of the 52ft Arun lifeboat which has recently gone on station...
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Aberdeen: on Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D Class Inflatable Lifeboat
Aberdeen: On Sunday May 29 Aberdeen's D class inflatable lifeboat, manned by Helmsman Stuart Durno and Crew Members James Ferguson and Allan Charles, launched to the aid of a youth stranded on cliffs inaccessible from the land. When the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs