LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1862
Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution and 51. to Mr. THOMAS ADAMS, the master of the smack Volunteer, of Harwich. Also the Silver Medal and 21. to each of the 5 men who went off in the smack's boat to the wreck; and the...
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International Lifeboat Conference By Patrick Howarth
THE NETHERLANDS, APRIL 22-26 MORE NATIONS were represented at the thirteenth International Lifeboat Conference, which was held in the Netherlands from April 22 to 26, than ever before at one of these occasions. In the early days the...
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Page & Moy
Explore what's on your doorstep with these two wonderful cruises from Page & Moy. Enjoy sleepy harbour towns and vibrant cities, beautiful countryside and spectacular coastlines on these eye-opening trips around our fascinating...
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Friends, Provide Us and Serene
Cobles escorted in gale THE HONORARY SECRETARY of Flamborough lifeboat station was told by HM Coastguard at 1010 on Saturday October 15, 1983, that a number of Bridlington based open angling cobles were fishing north of Flamborough Head in...
A Scottish Life-Boat Visits Nottingham
THE new Aberdeen life-boat Hilton Briggs, of the 52-feet Barnett (Strom- ness) type, which left the building yard at Cowes on the 17th of August of last year, broke her journey by sea to her station, to travel up the River Trent from Hull...
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May
Launches 53. Lives rescued 27.
MAY 1ST. - CROMARTY. At 7.40 A.M. a message was received from the Cromarty coastguard that two airmen had been seen in the sea off Brora, and at 8.20 A.M. the motor life-boat James Macfee was...
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Great Rail Journeys
GREAT RAIL JOURNEYS Arctic Circle Express 15 DAY HOLIDAY TO SCANDINAVIA & THE ARCTIC CIRCLE Travel with the UK's leading specialist in holidays by rail on a magnificent 15-day tour of Norway and Sweden. A friendly and professional...
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The Fundraisers
In Brief TO MARK his 50th birthday, Vincent Magrath of Tarn worth asked that instead of presents his fellow Rotarians and friends give their money to the RNLI. Chairman of Tamworth ladies' guild, Marion Appleby- Matthews, was invited to...
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The Fundraisers
Monopoly Live Most of us have played the classic board game Monopoly, but what about Monopoly Live where players actually visit the London sites from the board either by foot or public transport? This is just what happened on Sunday 6 July...
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China
PiEii, LANCASHIRE.—At 6 A.M. on the 4th September the William Eirkett Lifeboat was launched in reply to signals, to the assistance of the barque China, of Porsgrund, Norway. The boat was towed by the steam-tug Ajax, and when about two miles,...