LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
10 years on the beaches
The RNLI prides itself on a long lifesaving tradition but, in order to save more lives, it is alert to changes in how people use the sea
People still go to sea for a living. But by the year...
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£100,000 from the Civil Service
THE ' Civil Service Life-boat Fund held its sixty-eighth annual meeting at the Home Office on 15th May. The Right Hon. Lord Southborough, P.C., G.C.B., G.C.M.G., G.C.V.O., K.C.S.I., the chairman and honorary treasurer of the fund and a...
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The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
Deck Ban.
Kg. 3.
Kg. 4.
; Body Han, Midship Section.
The accompanying figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings, and air-chambers of one of these boats,...
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The Birthplace of Life-Boats
Tins year South Shields, where the first life-boat was built in 1789, cele- brated its centenary as a county borough. As part of the celebrations the Mayor and Mayoress, and members of the Council, went out in the Tyne- mouth life-boat...
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The Keel Boat Just Reward
Scarborough, Yorkshire.—On the morning of the 6th December a motor fishing coble and two keel boats were at sea. A strong W.N.W. gale sprang up, bringing a rough sea, and the motor life-boat Herbert Joy II was launched at 8.45 A.M. in case...
The Diver's Boat Ulster Queen
Howth, Co. Dublin.—At 6.50 on the evening of the 10th of May, 1957, the Bailey lighthouse-keeper telephoned that a boat was drifting ashore under the cliffs near the lighthouse. At seven o'clock the life-boat John...
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1890
THE Board of Trade have recently pub- lished, in accordance with their annual custom, a Blue Book overflowing with interesting information and tables of figures such as to delight the most enthusiastic statistician, furnishing elaborate...
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Services of Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SUFFOLK.—At 2.45 P.M.
on the 2nd May, 1901, the Cross Sand Lightship fired signals, which were repeated by the St. Nicholas Lightship, and in response the Life-boat Marie Lane was launched and was towed by the steam-tug...
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The Norwegian Motor Boat Runda
SEPTEMBER 24TH. - LONGHOPE , ORKNEYS. At about five in the evening the coastguard reported that a vessel needed help about a mile N.W. of Duncansby Head, and the motor life-boat Thomas McCunn was launched at 5.30. A S.E. gale was blowing,...
The Billiboy Amity, of Goole
A vessel, which proved to be the billiboy Amity, of Goole, bound from Yarmouth to Grimsby in ballast, missed stays and stranded on the main at Eceles, during squally weather and a heavy swell, at 2 o'clock on the morning of the 30th...