LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Boot Launches on Service During the Months September, October and November, 1970
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aith, Shetland Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Anstruther, Fife Appledore, North Devon Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Co. Wicklow Barmouth, Merionethshire Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow,...
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Life-Boat Launches on Service During the Months September October and November 1972
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Aith, Shetland Aldeburgh, Suffolk Amble, Northumberland Angle, Pembrokeshire Appledore, North Devon Arklow, Co. Wicklow Ballycotton, Co. Cork Barra Island, Outer Hebrides Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire...
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Duke of Northumberland's Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1937
" Imagine that You have been Shipwrecked and Rescued by a Life-boat.
Describe Your Experiences." THE Duke of Northumberland's Life- boat Essay Competition for elementary schools has been held this year for...
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List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1861
Jan. 1,1861.—The brig Lovely Nelly, of Seaham, was wrecked on the "Whitley Sands, Northumberland, during a strong gale, with a heavy sea and showers of snow and sleet. .The Cullercoats life-boat of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION was...
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August
AUGUST Launches 41. Lives rescued 92.
AUGUST 1ST. - THE HUMBER, YORKSHIRE. At about 1. 8 A.M. the Royal Naval shore signal station reported that a large steamer had run aground near the Chequer Shoal Buoy. The night was...
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Books
• The first lifeboat in the Penzance area was built in 1803 to Henry Greathead's design, purchased by local subscription and a donation from Lloyd's.
Unfortunately, the early initiative faded and the boat was sold...
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Lifeboat Services
Scotland North Division Cliff face helicopter lift LONOHOPE honorary secretary was informed by the Coastguard at 2352 on December 20, 1974, that the Belgian trawler Lans was ashore on the north side of Tor Ness and required immediate...
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List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1860
FROM THE 1st JANUARY TO THE 31st DECEMBER, 1860.
Jan. 5, 1860.—Voted the thanks of the Institution, inscribed on vellum, and II. to SAMUEL DUNN, in acknowledgment of his intrepid and prompt services in rescuing, at...
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Sir William Hillary, Bart
AMONG those men distinguished in the annals of their country for their exertions in the cause of humanity in saving life from ship- wreck, the name of Sir WILLIAM HILLARY must always claim a foremost place, not only as having personally...
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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XVI.—BROADSTAIRS.
The Samuel Morrison. Collins, 36 feet long, 9 feet 2 inches beam, 12 oars.
THE Broadstairs Life-boat of the Institution is one of the largest class, and well adapted for ser- vice as a...
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