LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Children Test Their Speedway Skills on Mini Motor Bikes at One of the Sideshows at Tynemouth's Harbour
Children test their speedway skills on mini motor bikes at one of the sideshows at Tynemouth's harbour spectacular that took place on the afternoon and evening of the royal wedding day last July: it was attended by 15,000... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services by Shore-Boats (5)
SIDMOUTH, DEVONSHIRE. At about 8.40 P.M. on the 22nd March, 1939, an aeroplane came down in the sea off Sidmouth. A westerly wind was blowing with gusts at thirty miles an hour and sleet showers. The sea was choppy. The Exmouth life-boat,...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Lottery
The winter 2005 Lifeboat Lottery raised almost £750,000 for the RNLI - thank you! Once again, the quarterly Lifeboat Lottery has broken all records, bringing 2005's total Lottery income to an extraordinary...
Category: Articles
Scarborough Life-Boat Brought Ashore for Inspection
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Blyth: CHOIR HITS TOP NOTE FOR KIT
Sing United entertained a sell-out audience at the Discovery Museum, Newcastle, in their first show together as a choir – raising a remarkable £1,339 to help save lives at sea. Pupils from Stocksfield Avenue Primary School and Stormy...
Category: Articles
Lifeboats and Lifeguards In Action
The Listings section of this magazine shows just how often RNLI lifeboats launch. Here is a selection of the wide-ranging stories behind the statistics and, overleaf, full details of those rescues that merited formal awards Ex-lifeboat saved...
Category: Services
Contents
Contents Lifeboat Services 113 XLVII Lifeboat Services, June, July and August, 1980 118 474 Going alongside . . . and survivor recovery 119 January, 1881: three weeks of storms and blizzards just a hundred years ago, by Ray Kipling, public...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
GREAT YARMOUTH. — The small surf Life-boat on this station, the Duff, went off on the 16th January, 1871, to the brig Flora, of Poole, which had parted her anchors and gone on the beach during a strong gale from the South. Proceeding through...
Category: Services
The S.S. Isabo
THE month of October ended with, a week of strong winds rising at times to gales, which reached their climax on the 28th and 29th. On those two days it blew a severe gale from the south and west over Southern Ireland, England and Wales,...
Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
To BENJAMIN MILLER, on his retirement, after serving 7 years as Second Coxswain and 3 years as Coxswain of the North Berwick Life-boat, a Pension.
To JOHN MORRIS, on his retirement, after serving 11 1/2 years as Second...
Category: Awards