LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart: An Aspect of Sea Power
. THE British Empire is the result and embodiment of Sea Power. That is the dominant fact which will strike the future historian of our race, as it does the contemporary student. How is it that these little Islands in the North great...
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Below Right: The Yarmouth All-Weather Lifeboat On Exercise With A Coastguard SAR Helicopter
Below right:The Yarmouth all-weather lifeboat on exercise with a Coastguard SAR helicopter. - View image in PDF
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck (1)
Royal National Life-Boat Institution For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.) FOUNDED IN 1824.—SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS.
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1957
Time of Date Launching Station 1957 Jan. 1 23.07 Newcastle 2 04.55 Stronsay „ 3 10.07 New Brighton 3 19.40 Weymouth ..
4 02.00 Tenby 4 21.25 Blyth ,, 6 06.25 Stornoway ..
7 19.45 Arklow 8 02.30 New...
Category: Services
A Year of Peace
In the twelve months from the end of the war in Europe on May 8th.
1945, life-boats rescued 677 lives. That is an average of 5 lives a month and is only 50 lives less than were rescued during the last twelve months of the...
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The Fundraisers
Clem 1, RNLI 250 A chance meeting with Ray Clemence, former England, Liverpool and Tottenham goalkeeper, raised £250.27 for the Clapham, Battersea and Wandsworth branch.
Joe Perry, a set builder for TV shows, met Ray...
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Bob Silverson (R) Senior Boatbuilder Shows Rother Building at William Osbornes Littlehampton to Richard Belchamber District Surveyor of Lifeboats (South East) Note Sl
Bob Silverson (r.), senior boatbuilder, shows Rother building at William Osbornes, Littlehampton, to Richard Belchamber, district surveyor of lifeboats (South East). Note slender building batten (arrowed) running the length of the boat... - View image in PDF
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Cornish Lass
The ketch Cornish Lass, of Plymouth, whilst bound from Saundersfoot to Caldy Island in ballast, stranded on the North Sands on the llth November*. A strong E.S.E. gale prevailed at the time with a heavy sea, and the Life-boat William and...
Maldon and District Branch Made a Collection Down the River Blackwater on Its Flag Day Last July D H Purnews Gaff Cutter Tamarisk Backed Up By Maldon Little Ship Club
Maldon and District branch made a collection down the River Blackwater on its flag day last July. D. H.PurneWs gaff cutter Tamarisk, backed up by Maldon Little Ship Club guard boat, motored down as far as St Lawrence Bay approaching all... - View image in PDF
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Give it some welly!
Celebrities Dermot O’Leary, Graham Norton and Rachel Allen gave it some welly for our MAYDAY national fundraising event in the Republic of Ireland. Thousands of supporters wore wellies, bought yellow welly keyrings and enjoyed fundraising...
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