LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Merchant Shipping (Life-Saving Appliances) Act, 1888, and the Rules Framed Under Its Provisions
OUR readers may remember that a recent number of this Journal contained an article on the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Saving Life at Sea. The recommendations of that Committee were in due course embodied in a...
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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-houses, under lock 'and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees...
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The Sailing Barge Davenport
Early on the morning of the 18th December the coastguard warned the coxswain that a flare had been seen to the E.N.E. The coxswain went to the look out, and after some time saw a red flare. A S.E., veering to S., gale was blowing, with a...
The Best Essay In the Competition
The Best Essay in the Competition.
By BKENDA DARLINGTON (aged 9J), of Summerbank Girls' School, Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent.
THE QUALITIES THAT MAKE A GOOD LIFE-BOATMAN.
Just as a man...
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The Best Essay
By RITA DAPHNE HARDING (aged 11), The Colville Junior Girls' School, Lonsdale Road, Netting Hill, London, W.ll.
I STOOD watching a strong weatherbeaten tisherman haul baskets of crabs over the side of his boat, on to...
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Shoreboat Services. For Which Rewards Were Given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management
For which Rewards were given at the May, June and July Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Skegness, Lincolnshire.—At about 5 P.M. on the 23rd April an aeroplane fell into the sea about two hundred yards from the...
Category: Services
Index to the Branches
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Foreign Life-Boat Services. Rescues from British Vessels In 1935, and Numbers of the Fleets
Rescues from British Vessels in 1935, and Numbers of the Fleets.
DURING 1935 foreign life-boats went to the help of 22 British vessels. One of these services was by Belgium, 1 by Germany, 1 by Iceland, 3 by France, 3 by...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE weekend of 15th/16th August, 1970, was the busiest the life-boat service has known in its entire history. Winds of force 10 or more were blowing, and there was a spate of activity by both life-boats and inshore rescue boats, par-...
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Sergeant F. C. Elverson, Aged 69, a Chelsea Pensioner, Pictured at the R.N.L.I. Stand Talking to Nicolette Milnes-Walker, First Woman to Sail the Atlantic Alone and Non-Stop. Mr. Elverston Is Also R
Sergeant F. C. Elverson, aged 69, a Chelsea Pensioner, pictured at the R.N.L.I. stand talking to Nicolette Milnes-Walker, first woman to sail the Atlantic alone and non-stop. Mr. Elverston is also a record maker (see below).. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs