LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
THE Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1894, was issued a few months since from the Gov- ernment Printing Office at Washington, and we learn from it that there are now...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1875-6
A perusal of the Annual Wreck Register recently issued for the year commencing on the 1st July, 1875, and ending on the 30th June, 1876, is by no means encou- raging. The wrecks and casualties which it so minutely and accurately chronicles...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
THURSO, SCOTLAND.—A life-boat station has been recently established at Thurso in connection with the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a single-banked, selfrighting life-bqat, 30 feet long, and rowing six oars, has been placed there,...
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The Watson (Cabin) Type of Motor Life-Boat
By CAPTAIN HOWARD F. J. ROWLEY, C.B.E., R.N., Chief Inspector of Life-boatsALTHOUGH the Barnett (Twin Screw) Boat, built for the Station at New Brighton, was the first Cabin Life-boat to be laid down for the Institution's fleet, the...
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Forthcoming Life-Boat Days
THE following is a fairly complete list of the Life-boat Days which have already been arranged for the summer.
The dates, however, are subject to alteration. This list does not include a large number of places where days...
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Lord Wakefield's Gifts. A New Motor Life-Boat and Boat-House at Hythe, Kent
THE Viscount Wakefield of Hythe, G.C.V.O., C.B.E., LL.D., who is vice- president of the Hythe, Kent, branch, has presented to the Institution the whole cost, amounting to £9,669 2s. 9d., of the new motor life-boat which was stationed at...
Category: Donations
Notes of the Quarter
THE December number of the Life-boat, recording as it does the happenings in the months of July, August and Septem- ber, invariably has a bulky section devoted to the detailed accounts of services by the life-boats, for it is in the summer...
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Week's Good Cause By Coxswain Derek Scott Bem
ON SUNDAY AUGUST 12 Derek Scott, BEM, coxswain of The Mumbles lifeboat, made an appeal on behalf of the RNLI on BBC Radio 4. The text of the appeal, in response to which more than £11,200 has already been received, is given below:...
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MEN DIVED FOR BOY AT about 7.30 p.m. on 14th March, 1971, Mr.
John Hodder, a member of the Lyme Regis, Dorset, ILB crew, was working on the Cobb when he heard cries for help. As the ILB was off service for the winter months...
Shoreline
SHORELINE STAFF wish all members and everyone connected with the RNLI a happy and successful new year.
October 1974 was a landmark for us, when the 20,000th Shoreline member was enrolled. This member was 12-yearold Linda...
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