LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Noble Rescue
ON Friday night, the 23rd October, 1868, a Government lighter named the Devon, was making her way round the Land's End to a western port. She was strongly built, and a good sea-boat, and could well enough have weathered the hard gale...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BALLYWALTER, Co. DOWN.— On the morning of the 4th January, 1892, while a moderate gale of wind was blowing from the N.N.E., with strong hail squalls and a heavy sea, signals of distress were seen in the direction of the Ship Rock, about a...
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A Rowing Boat
Hythe, Kent.—8th August. Four boys were out in a rowing boat, but while a search was being made for them during the night, they returned unaided.—Rewards, £20 2s. 6d..
Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby Lifeboat Receives His Silver Medal for Gallantry
Coxswain Alan Thomas of the Tenby lifeboat receives his Silver Medal for Gallantry from HRH the Duchess of Kent during the afternoon ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Relief - Mersey Class Royal Shipwright
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, aboard the relief Mersey class lifeboat Royal Shipwright after her naming ceremony at Greenwich. (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
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Scarborough- Mersey Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs
HRH The Duchess of Kent returns to harbour aboard Scarborough's new Mersey class Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs after the naming ceremony on 9 September.. - View image in PDF
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Newly-Invented Sounding Instrument
THE principle on which this novel instrument is constructed to act, consists in obtaining the weight of the column of water resting on the ground, a principle which, simple as it is, and beautiful in its simplicity, could only have been...
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Sunflower
At 7.30A.M.
on the 6th February, during thick weather, with a strong W. breeze blow- ing and a moderate sea, a message was received by telephone stating that a vessel was ashore between Prawle Point and Start Point. The...
Anniversary of Grace Darling's Rescue
The 1th September, 1963, was the 25th anniversary of the famous rescue by Grace Darling and her father of survivors from the Forfarshire. The following article, which has been specially written for the Life-boat by Commander W....
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