LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Swimming
FROM time to time the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has endeavoured to keep before the public eye the neces- sity for increased efforts to promote the extension of the art of swimming, and in doing this it has only been acting up to...
Category: Articles
Enfant de Bretagne
Aground on rocks AT 0205 ON SUNDAY, February 13, the honorary secretary of St Mary's, Isles of Scilly, was requested by St Mary's Coastguard to launch to the aid of a French fishing vessel aground on rocks near Bishop Rock Lighthouse...
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Bude, Cornwall - At 12.15 P-m. on 30th May, 1966, the IRB was on exercise with a partly trained crew when she received a message that a bather was in difficulties half a mile north west of Bude.
She proceeded immediately in...
Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
September Meeting.
Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—On the 15th May, 1938, an outboard motor boat capsized about two hundred yards off shore and four and a half miles west of Clacton. A slight S.S.E. breeze was blowing, with a choppy...
Category: Services
Life-Boat Day at Filey
Launching the Life-boat on 9th August with the sons of H.R.H. Princess Mary, Countess of Harewood, on board.. - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services
The Lifeboat Tyne class 47-026 Garstde The Crew Vellum Coxswain Malcolm Gray for his 'tenacity, determination and seamanship... Any miscalculation could have resulted in the lifeboat being beached or grounded on the rocks or even...
Category: Services
Margate's Atlantic 21 Lifeboat.
Margate's Atlantic 21 lifeboat. Percy Garron II, enpying slightly more favourable weather than that of late October 1999-. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Maritime Book Society
WE KNOW ABOUT THE SEA HERE and we have the books to prove it! DEVON as your introduction to the Maritime Book Society worth up to £20 or more at publishers' prices! rnrnrn x oks numbers j J I 1 [__ I would like to join the...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Incorporated by Royal Charter Founded 1824. SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS, PATRONESS HER HOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
VICE-PATRON HIS ROYAL...
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A Close-Up Broadside View
A close-up broadside view of the model: note the faithful reproduction of the anchor stowage and of the stanchions and guard chains: it took Mr Turland seven hours to fit just one of the bottle screws. Note also the buo ancy blocks behind... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs