LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Bishop of Cloyne Speaking at the Youghal Ceremony
The Bishop of Cloyne Speaking at The Youghal Ceremony. - View image in PDF
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The Duchess of Kent and the Ramsgate Coxswain
The Duchess of Kent and The Ramsgate Coxswain. - View image in PDF
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Winning Rowers the Hythe Hookers - Pictured With the Sergeant Peppers!
Winning rowers the Hythe Hookers - pictured with the Sergeant Peppers!. - View image in PDF
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The Ernest and Mabel With the Model Version Floating Alongside.
The Ernest and Mabel with the model version floating alongside.. - View image in PDF
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The Daunt Lightship
BaUycotton, Co. Cork.—This motor lifeboat was on service from the llth February to the 14th February, and rescued the crew of eight of the Daunt Lightship.—Rewards, gold medal, silver and bronze medals with vellums, binocular glass, letters...
Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Cox- swain John Watters, who has been coxswain of the Fowey, Cornwall, life-boat since 1934. In 1947 Cox- swain Watters was awarded the bronze medal for the rescue of seven men from the auxiliary motor vessel...
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The Corton Lightvessel
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 7.31 p.m. on i4th December, 1965, the coastguard notified the honorary secretary that the Gorton lightvessel had on board her a man suffering from severe toothache who needed dental treatment. The...
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives nto the pasL 100 years ago The spring 1906 edition of the then Life-boat Journal reported there was a large demand for the barometers that the RNLI offered to professional mariners at a reduced...
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Mishandled By the Germans
When the chief inspector visited the two Channel Island stations in June 1945 he found that the Guernsey boat, which had been armed by the Germans with two guns and used as a fishery patrol boat, had been so mishandled that she was unfit for...
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The long view
One hundred years on from the sinking of RMS Titanic we are reminded of the continuing perils of the sea with the recent with the Costa Concordia
Both incidents involved loss of life, with...
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