LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Legacies Received In 1896
FOR SPECIAL TKUST PURPOSES.
£ s. d.
Atherstone, J. G., Esq., Montrose (balance) 487 6 2 Chapman, Mrs. M. A., Cathcart Road, S.W 1100 4 4 Dudley, J. W., Esq., Woodforrt . 700 - -...
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Coastal Life
COAstAL LIfe Not in my backyard? Windfarms are springing up all around the British Isles, but most are offshore, away from the controversy blowing in the countryside. Bethany Hope investigates their impact Devotees of the modern equivalent...
Category: Articles
Queensferry- Scotland Division
Queensferry's Atlantic 21 lifeboat station is another which is easily found by reference to a famous structure, as clearly shown on the left! The station itself is at the very bottom of the photo, at the landward end of the pier to the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Services of the Life-Boats In October, November and December, 1956. Lives Rescued 72
OCTOBER DURING October life-boats were launched on service 56 times and rescued 37 lives.
TWO YACHTS ESCORTED TO MEVAGISSEY Fowey, Cornwall.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 1st of October, 1956, the Polruan...
Category: Services
Dispatches
Dispatches RNLI Photographer of the Year 2006 The first ever RNLI Photographer of the Year competition, open to everyone at the charity’s lifeboat stations and lifeguard units, recorded the drama of working in a lifesaving environment using...
Category: Articles
Legacies Received In 1900
FOR SPECIAL TRUST PURPOSES.
Capital Available.
f. t. d.
Beach, Mrs. Sarah, James Street, W. 1000 - - Courtney, Mrs. Caroline, Exmouth . 1000 - - Hopwood, Samuel Weymouth, Esq., Queen...
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Review. "The Story of the Sea: The Sea, Its History and Romance." By Frank C. Bowen (Halton and Truscott Smith. Vol. I. 15s. Net)
MB. BOWEN has performed a public ser- vice in writing this book, which sets forth in a straightforward, and at times almost prosaic, way the romantic history of the sea and its ships. We use the word " prosaic " advisedly, for what...
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At the Sharp End
• Wo matter how experienced and well prepared you are every small-boat sailor knows that problems can still arise seemingly out of the blue. This was some consolation to the RNLI's own Chief of Operations during the Round the Island Race...
Category: Services
Centenary of the Poolbeg Station
A LIFE-BOAT, built in Dublin, was stationed at Poolbeg by the Dublin Ballast Board in 1820, four years before the Institution was founded. It was " at the entrance of the River Liffey ; kept on the quay, near a crane." It is known...
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Boree (1)
Cromer and Wells, Norfolk.—On the 26th March the French steamer Boree, of Caen, and the Spanish steamer Aizkarai Mendi, were in collision off East Dudgeon light-vessel. A moderate E.N.E. breeze was blowing, with a moderate sea. The weather...