LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Honorary Workers of the Institution. No. 10.—Miss Letitia French, Honorary Secretary of the Palling Life-Boat Station
OF the many hundreds of honorary workers for the Life-boat Cause, those on whom the chief burden and respon- sibility fall are the Honorary Secretaries of the Life-boat Stations. It is a responsibility resting on them the whole time, from...
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Laurita Once the Kirkcudbright Lifeboat Priscilla Mcbean Built In 1921 and Still In Commission on Lake Windermere
Laurita, once the Kirkcudbright lifeboat Priscilla McBean, built in 1921 and still in commission on Lake Windermere. - View image in PDF
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GIVE IT A GO: COASTAL FORAGING
All around us, ancient varieties of food are just waiting to be rediscovered. From leaves like samphire and sea spinach to seaweeds, blackberries, beech nuts and violets – you’ll be amazed at the abundance and...
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The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt. Rev. Dr David Steel Visited Oban Station Last July, and Went to Sea In the Maclachlan Ilb.
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, the Rt. Rev. Dr David Steel visited Oban station last July, and went to sea in the Maclachlan ILB.. - View image in PDF
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No Small Tempest Lay on Us
AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...
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T. L. Devlin, of Granton
DECEMBER 19TH. ~ ABERDEEN. At 1.54 in the morning information was received from the coastguard that the steam trawler T. L.
Devlin, of Granton, had sprung a leak and needed help. A southerly gale was blowing, with heavy...
Hastings County, of Bergen
ON the night of June 13th the Motor Life-boat at Stromness was called out to the help of a large steamer, the Hastings County, of Bergen, on her way from Hamburg to Montreal with a general cargo, which the Coast Guard had reported to have...
Burton-On-Trent September 27 1986:
Burton-on-Trent, September 27, 1986: specially brewed commemorative beer was the unusual souvenir item on sale when Hartlepool's new Atlantic 21 lifeboat. Burton Brewer, was handed over to the station in Burton-on-Trent. The Midlands... - View image in PDF
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Oscar, of Tonsberg
On the 19th Sep- tember, the brig Oscar, of Tonsberg, was stranded, and afterwards became a total wreck amongst the rocks a short distance from St. Andrew's Harbour, during a strong easterly gale. The St. Andrew's life-boat was...