LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Shipwreck Off "Soulsgrif."
The following graphic account of a determined and gallant Lifeboat Service rendered on the occasion of a shipwreck which occurred on the Yorkshire Coast a few years since, is abridged from an interesting work, entitled, " Between the...
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Sinking of Biscaya: Four Photographs Taken In Her Last Five Minutes One Minute After the First Photograph Was Taken (Left} Three Men Were Snatched from Biscaya Including
Sinking of Biscaya: four photographs taken in her last five minutes. One minute after the first photograph was taken (left} three men were snatched from Biscaya, including the Dutch crew member from salvage tug Titan.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Vera Robinson Mbe
No article on the Zetland and the RNLI at Redcar would be complete without mention of Vera Robinson MBE. Vera joined the Redcar ladies lifeboat guild as a committee member in 1930 and has held every position in the fl guild during the last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Rescue from a Fort In the Mersey
ON the afternoon of the 22nd of September, a south-westerly gale was blowing in the mouth of the Mersey with rain squalls and breaking seas twenty feet high. In those heavy seas the military authorities were afraid for the safety of -one of...
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From the Director
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
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Inshore Lifeboat Services September October and November 1977
Aberdovey, Gwynedd September 3, 19 and October 9 Abersoch, Gwynedd September 9, 10, 23, October 16 and November 26 Aldeburgh, Suffolk October 23 Amble, Northumberland September 15 Appledore, North Devon September 4 and 16 Atlantic College,...
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Lifeboat Services from Page 157
and Coxswain Jack headed out towards Bell Rock. A few minutes later, when clear of the bar, the coxswain handed over to the second coxswain, who had injured his ankle and, as he was unable to get an answer on the intercom, went below to...
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List of Gifts and Bequests Having Special Conditions Attached to Them Appropriated By the Committee In 1908—continued
The late Miss A. W. Clarke Hall
Amount of Gift or Legacy: 7,571 18 7
Date received. 1906-7
For building and...
Category: Donations
Susilla (1)
High and dry on the Solway Firth From the shifting sand and mud banks of the Solway Firth, the grounded yacht Susiila radioed for help. It took a joint service by Workington and Silloth Lifeboats to locate the yacht and find a way to reach...