LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Fishing Trawler Rosebud
Newcastle, Co. Down. At 3.15 on the afternoon of the 1st of January1959, a passing motorist told the motor mechanic that a fishing trawler anchored off Mullartown Point was burning distress flares. At 3.40 the life-boat William and Laura...
Fishermen and the War
" FISHERMEN are regarded as a reserve for the Navy." So runs a circular of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries which, soon after the passing of the Military Service Act, was sent out to all seaports and fishing centres on our...
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The Bar Lightship
During a moderate N.N.E. gale on the night of 30th September, the Bar light-ship broke loose from her moorings and commenced to drift towards the banks. Her position was one of considerable danger, and signals of distress attracted the...
Sons of the Wear
BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. — On the 23rd September, at about 1 A.M., a southerly gale suddenly sprang up, increasing in violence until about 3 o'clock, when it became very severe. A large fleet of fishing-boats which had gone out during the...
The Princess Royal Hrh the Princess Anne
The Princess Roval, HRH the Princess Anne meets pupils from the Clerkenwell Parochial School, dressed in authentic Victorian costume, at the launching of the Grace Darling Appeal, intended to raise enough money for a new lifeboat for North... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-bouses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
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The Edinburgh Lightvessel (1)
Margate, .Kent, and Clacton-on-Sea, Essex.—At about 3.55 A.M. on the llthFebruary, 1938, the Margate coastguard telephoned that Clacton coastguard had reported rockets near the Edinburgh Light-vessel. A north gale was bio wing, with a very...
The Life-Belts In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra-buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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Left: the Britta Oden
Left: The Britta Oden viewed from the lifeboat I. - View image in PDF
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The Two Lifeboatmen
The two lifeboatmen in this picture have every right to look happy. Not only are they among those who will enjoy the delicious looking food in front of them at Stockport South East branch's twenty-first annual cheese and wine party, but... - View image in PDF
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