LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Folkestone Branch
No one of the 1,136 branches of the institution can equal in the number of its activities the record of Folke- stone for the first three months of the year. There were nine in all— in January a lecture and a dance, in February a bridge party...
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Dagmar, of Middlesborough
Early on the morning of the 17th June, signals of distress were observed from the yacht Dagmar, of Middlesborough, lying in the Roads off Redcar, in which she had taken refuge the previous evening. It was blowing fresh from the north, and...
Helsingoe, of Elsinore
The following account of an additional noble and great service recently performed by the same valuable life-boat cannot fail to be read with much interest. These details have been furnished by the Rev. G. W.
STEWARD, the...
On the rocks
Two sailors clung to a ledge beneath Welsh cliffs, lashed by waves with the tide rising around them
With the sea and wind driving directly onto the rocky shoreline, this would be an extremely...
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The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THIS excellent Service, which is now in its fifteenth year as a chartered corporation, is making strenuous efforts to increase its sphere of usefulness and to extend the scope of its operations.
Although the Society ("...
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The Fund Raisers
Some ways of filling the coffers… In brief...In brief...In brief.
BARRY YACHT Club donated £1,300 to Barry Dock branch chairman last November, £400 of which came from an RNLI 'levy' which the club includes...
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The Lifeboats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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A Small Ship The Billyboy Swan, of Hull
On the 17th October, 1869, during a violent gale from the N., a small ship drifted past this place with signals of distress flying. The life- boat Birmingham was at once dispatched , to the aid of the vessel, which ultimately struck on the...
Atlantic, of Ostend
FEBRUARY 17TH. - PADSTOW, CORNWALL.
Shortly before noon the coastguard at Stepper Point reported, by telephone, distress signals from a trawler four miles north-west-by-north of Trevose Head. A fresh northerly wind was...
Portrait on the Cover
The portait on the cover is of Cox- swain John Murt of Padstow. He was appointed coxswain of the Padstow no. 1 life-boat in 1944 and two years later was awarded the Institution's silver medal for gallantry for a service to the s.s. Kedah...
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