LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain Robert Brown of Swanage, who has been coxswain since 1941. He was assistant mechanic from 1928 to 1934 and second coxswain from 1934 to 1941. During his period of service Swanage life-boats have...
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Guy and Clare Hunter In Gale Force Winds Standing By the \Acht Braemar Before Taking Her In Tow May 22 1967
Guy and Clare Hunter, in gale force winds, standing by the acht Braemar before taking her in tow. May 22, 1967. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Bowman Richard Lethbridge. - View image in PDF
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The Ramsgate Station
As a result of negotiations which have been going on between the Board of Trade and the Institution since July, 1920, the Institution has now taken over full financial responsibility for the Ramsgate Station, and, as from 31st March last,...
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A Book on the Cornish Life-Boats
THE seaboard of Cornwall can present two faces—the milder one—that usually seen by the summer visitor—is a pleasant one of sun-baked sands, regular lines of surf delightful for bathing, quaint houses and harbours, and granite rocks arranged...
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A Glider
ST MARY'S, ISI.KS OK sciu.v, Saturday July 26, 1986: the crew of the 52ft Arun class relief lifeboat Duchess of Kent, on temporary duty at St Mary's, assembled, ready to launch, after Falmouth Coastguard telephoned to say that a...
The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats, Northum- berland, carried out their eleventh annual collection on behalf of the Institution, on 30th July, when the Cullercoats Life-boat had its quarterly road exercise and launch. The collec- tion was again a...
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Index to the Branches
ABBRDEHS- . . . .221 ABBRDOVEY . . . .197 ABKBSOCH .... 166 ACOCK'S GrREKH . . 213 AX.DEBURGH . . . .207 INDEX TO THE BRANCHES.
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The 37-Foot Oakley Life-Boat Amelia Which Was Paraded In London In the 1968 Lord Mayor's Show the Same Life-Boat Was Also on Show In the Forecourt of St. Paul's Cathe
The 37-foot Oakley life-boat Amelia which was paraded in London in the 1968 Lord Mayor's Show. The same life-boat was also on show in the forecourt of St. Paul's Cathedral and the climax to her three-day stay was a service on board... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Richard Walsh, the coxswain of the Rosslare Harbour life-boat. Richard Walsh has been coxswain since December 1946.
From August 1941 to December 1946 he was second coxswain, and before...
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The S.S. Dundee
On the night of the 20th April the s.s. Dundee, of Dundee, bound, laden, from that port to London, stranded at the mouth of the River Tay, S. by E. of Horseshoe buoy. She carried twelve passengers, and a crew of twenty-two. Her master sent...