LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Victorian photographer’s art of glass
In a nod to his craft’s Victorian heritage, one Newcastle-based photographer is visiting every lifeboat station with his 110-year-old camera and glass plate technology.
Using a former NHS ambulance as a mobile darkroom,...
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Fishing Boats and Hall Mark
Bridlington, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 23rd November, 1938, a heavy gale sprang up from the south bringing a rough sea and rain squalls.
The fishing fleet was at sea. The motor life-boat Stanhope Smart was launched...
Not Forgot, the Henry, the Renown and the John Herbert
MOELFRE, ANGLESEY.—A very severe gale from the N.N.W. was experienced on the 6th and 7th November, and the Lifeboat Star of Hope put off to the assistance of five distressed vessels, and rescued their crews numbering in all seventeen men.<...
Blackbird and a Canoe
Three calls A CANOE with two children aboard, overdue on passage from Colne Point to West Mersea, was reported to the deputy launching authority of West Mersea ILB station by Thames Coastguard at 2006 on Monday July 31,...
Contents
Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 512 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole,...
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The Death of Two Vice-Presidents. The Viscount Burnham, G.C.M.G., C.H., T.D., and the Right Hon, the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G., P.C.
The Viscount Burnham, G.C.M.G., C.H., T.D., and the Right Hon. the Viscount Grey of Fallodon, K.G., P.C.
BY the death of the Viscount Burnham, G.C.M.G., C.H., T.D., on 20th July last, and the death of the Right...
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Phillip’s Defence Unit No.1 and H.M. Trawler Almondine
GOLD MEDAL SERVICE AT THE HUMBER JANUARY 6TH. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At 7.57 in the evening the station received a request from the extended defence officer for the life-boat to go to the help of Phillip’s defence unit No. l*, which was...
The Fisheries Exhibition
IT would probably savour of exaggeration to assert that this Exhibition is entitled to the first place in the long roll of similar undertakings, of which the Exhibition of 1851 was the grand beginning; but history will give it a high place...
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Bluebird
Dungeness, Kent.—A fisherman reported to the coxswain at 11.45 A.M.
on the 10th August that a yacht had been dismasted a mile south of Dungeness.
She was the Bluebird, bound for Portsmouth from Dover, with...
Feature Bringing History Alive
When was the last time you visited a museum or a historic site? The best places are those that bring history to life, for children and adults. If the museum inspires you, not only will you have a great day out. you will leave knowing far...
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