LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Great Storm In November, 1893
AT irregular periods, mercifully with a lapse of several years between them, storms of wide extent and hurricane force visit our coasts. The violence of these great gales and the enormous area affected by them is out of all proportion to the...
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Our Inland Branches. Henley-On-Thames
LEAVING the main line at Twyford on the ; Great Western Railway, we proceed by a small local line to Henley, passing through Shiplake, a small station where the j Thames is crossed. This village is situ- ated at the foot of hilly slopes, on...
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The Screw Steamship Ingerid
The service of the same Life-boat on the 20th January, is thus reported in The East Anglian Daily Times :— "Those who were on Harwich pier between nine and ten on the morning of the 21st January, will not readily forget the scene...
The Steamers Stella Maris and Oria
About 10 P.M. on the 7th January, two steamers, the Stella Maris, of Glasgow, and Oria, of Bilbao, collided off the Skerries.
Within five minutes of the collision the latter vessel sank, but happily her crew were able to...
Naive, Salamander and Abigail
GALE SPRINGS UP DURING OCEAN RACE Bridlington, Yorkshire. At eight o'clock on the morning of the 22nd June, 1962, the Royal Yorkshire Yacht Club's Outer Dowsing ocean race started with about sixteen yachts taking part. By three o'...
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The great orange case search...Red Bay's C class lifeboat was involved in an unusual incident last Autumn when she was involved in the hunt for four cases of oranges...
However, there was more than a little method to...
Ilmatar
LYDD, DUNGENESS.—At 2 A.M. on the 18th May, the Russian barque Ilmatar got ashore off Dungeness, during a fresh gale at E.N.E., a heavy sea running. The Lifeboats Lifeboats on this part of the coast are mainly dependent on the coastguardmen...
A New Type of Motor Life-Boat for Liverpool
Under the heading " More Motor Life-boats " the following letter from the Secretary of the Institution appeared in the Liverpool Journal of Commerce on the 22nd April, 1920 :.— SIR,—I have read with much pleasure in a recent issue...
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Some Heroes of 1913
medals are more difficult to earn, and hence few are more highly appreciated, than the Medal of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. It may indeed well be regarded as the Victoria Cross of the sea service, although it differs from that...
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‘I CAN DO THIS’
RNLI crew around the UK and Ireland are often called heroes for their acts of incredible bravery. But they are as human as the rest of us
You’re the ones with RNLI written all over you. You’re the people who are there to...
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