LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Merchant Shipping Act, 1875
UNSEAWORTHY SHIPS, 38 & 39 VICTORIA, CAP. 88.) THE Act -which was passed at the end of last Session for the better security of ships and sailors, although only to con- tinue in force for one year, is of consider- able importance, as...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Mrs.
Louisa Taylor, one of the launchers at Newbiggin, Northumberland. The Newbiggin women were awarded the Institution's thanks on vellum for helping to haul the life-boat up a cliff,...
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Eve
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex. — At 11.23 in the morning of the 14th of October, 1951, pilots reported that a yacht with a body in tow was off Shoreham, and needed help. At 11.28 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis Lunn was launched in calm...
Services of Life-Boats
LYTHAM.—On the 13th December, 1859, the brigantine Robert and Henry, of Dundalk, ran ashore on the Horse Bank, at the entrance of the River Mersey; intelligence being conveyed to Lytham of the disaster, the Institution's life-boat at...
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The Motor Drifter Bezaleel
At 1 A.M. on the 1st November, a telephone message was received from the - Coastguard that a fishing vessel was making distress signals N.N.E. of the Look- out, close inshore. A strong W.N.W.
breeze was blowing with a heavy...
Clem James of Staithes and Runswick One of Those at "The Sharp End"
Clem James of Staithes and Runswick One of Those at "The Sharp End". - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Nearly every Life-boat, except a few of the larger sizes, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for...
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The Sailfin Being Towed By a Tug to Lowestoft Harbour
The Saiirm Being Towed By A Tug To Lowestoft Harbour. - View image in PDF
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Five Hundred People Attending Gorleston Lifeboat Hall Gave a Big 'send Off to a Mammoth Fund-Raising Event By- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No 41 The
Five hundred people attending Gorleston lifeboat hall gave a big 'send off to a mammoth fund-raising event by- Great Yarmouth and District Round Table No. 41.
The Tabler.i aim to raise £10,000 for the Institution... - View image in PDF
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