LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services Around the World
Those who explain the RNLI and its role to the uninitiated are frequently asked: 'how do other countries do it?' Can there be anywhere else in the world where the considerable cost of running a lifeboat service is met entirely...
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During a W.N.W. hurricane with sleet showers on the 22nd February a message was received from the Coastguard at Drummore stating that a vessel about half-a-mile to the east of the harbour was making signals of distress. The crew of the...
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• Those who help to launch lifeboats can often be regarded as the forgotten heroes and heroines of a rescue, but at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea they are determined that the women launchers, whose exploits twice brought...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. At about 2 o'clock on the morning of the 6th January three of the fishing cobles belonging to Flamborough put out to sea. About three hours later, when the boats were five miles from home, the N.N.W. wind...
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Six of the Seven Life-Boatmen Who Were Present at the Centenary Thanksgiving Service
From left to right:—ex-Coxswain Holbrook, of Bembridge, hie of Wight; ex-Coxswain Robert Burton, of Berwick-on-Tweed i Second-Coxswain George Newman, of Worthing Coxswain Walter Fairbairn, of Dunbar and Skateraw; Coxswain Daniel Murphy, of... - View image in PDF
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The Heavy Gales of October and November Last
THE unusually heavy gale, or rather hurricane, of the night of the 24th October last, was unexampled in its work of destruction in our maritime records. During the whole of that day not a single casualty, with one trifling exception,...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
THURSDAY, 8th Jan., 1903.
Sir EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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Functional Clothing
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
BALLYCOTTON,CO. COEK.—At about 4.30 P.M. on the 28th January, 1883, the barque Argo, of Sunderland, was sighted off Bally- cotton, making for Cork harbour, close- hauled, the wind then blowing very hard from the S.S.W., with heavy rain. On...
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Lieutenant-Commander Hendrik De Booy
ALL in Great Britain who knew Lieut.- Commander Hendrik de Booy, secretary of the North and South Holland Life- boat Society, will learn with regret that he has just retired, and will join in wishing him happiness in his retirement.
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