LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.—The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a lifeboat station at this place. The life-boat is 36 feet long, 9 feet wide, and rows 12 oars double-banked. A commodious and substantial boat-house has been erected, with a...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
THURSO, CAITHNESS-SHIRK.—While a whole gale from W.N.W. was raging, accompanied by a very heavy sea and rain, on the night of the 5th January, 1902, signals of distress were observed from the schooners Emma Louise and Elizabeth Miller, both...
Category: Services
Telegraph, of Port Issac
The Albert Edward life-boat at Pad- stow saved the crew of 3 men of the smack Telegraph, of Port Isaac, which had stranded on the Doom Bar.
Lifeboat Services
West Division Carried off shore LIVERPOOL COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Fleetwood lifeboat station at 1749 on Friday March 23, 1984, that a board sailor was in trouble a short distance from the shore opposite Rossall Hospital...
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Portrait of a Coxswain
THE photograph shows Coxswain Gordon Bellamy, of Llandudno, Caernar- vonshire. He was appointed bowman in July, 1958, and became second cox- swain in November, 1960. He has been coxswain of the Llandudno life-boat since January, 1961, and... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Douglas Lifeboat R a Colby Cubbin No1
Douglas lifeboat R. A. Colby Cubbin No. 1 is pictured returning from an exercise involving the warship HMS Ribble a River class RNR minesweeper based at Liverpool. The exercise involved transferring a casualty in a Neil Robinson stretcher... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Snow Joke: Pity This Poor Fund Raiser;
Snow joke: pity this poor fund raiser; after a hard morning in March with his collecting box outside Rod White's fish shop in Cray don, during which time he collected a magnificent £27.10, he sadly disappeared into a premature, and... - View image in PDF
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News
News ‘A treasure trove!’ This is just one glowing comment from a visitor to the RNLI’s new Henry Blogg museum in Cromer – and now ‘official’ accolades have followed.
The building's contemporary design follows the curve...
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RNLI In Action
RNLI in action This quarter’s highlights of the many hundreds of lifeboat launches and lifeguard incidents around the UK and Republic of Ireland Lost and listing Volunteer lifeboat crews from Falmouth and The Lizard joined the rescue... - View image in PDF
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Mac
Rhyl, Flintshire, and Hoylake, Cheshire.— —At 3.2 in the morning of the 7th December, 1948, the Rhyl coastguard telephoned that a flare had been seen six miles north-east by north of the pier, and the motor life-boat The Gordon Warren was...