LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services
At 4.12 a.m. on 24th January, 1972, the Flamborough coastguard told Mr. Arthur Dick, the honorary secretary, Bridllngton, that the m.f.v. My Susanne was sending out radio messages requesting life-boat assistance, as her engine was broken...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Services
MKDAUJS IS SHOVVKI) 'BRAVKRV AM) KXPKKTISK Sailor rescued as yacht is driven on to lee shore The coxswain and helmsman of Whitby's two lifeboats, the 44ft Waveney White Rose of Yorkshire and the D class inflatable Gwynaeth, have both...
Category: Services
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Atlantic damaged while saving girls trapped in heavy surf under pier For the first time in the history of the RNLI the three-man crew of an Atlantic class lifeboat have been awarded a Silver and two Bronze Medals for a single service. This...
The Life-Boat House
The boats of the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and all belonging to them, are kept in roomy and substantial boat-houses, under lock and key, in charge of paid coxswains, under the general superintendence of local honorary committees of...
Category: Articles
A New Station on the West of Scotland. Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire
Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
LAST year a new life-boat station was established on the West of Scotland, at Port Askaig, Isle of Islay, Argyllshire.
The self-righting motor life-boat Frederick...
Category: Inaugurations
Vellum Accorded to National Trust Warden
ABOUT 9.45 on the morning of the 16th of April, 1960, a rubber and canvas collapsible canoe, which had left Burn- ham Overy Staiths for Blakeney, Nor- folk, capsized in the surf off Blakeney Point. There were two men on board, who were...
Category: Awards
The Margate Motor Life-Boat at Calais
ON th« invitation of the Mayor of Calais a party representing the Life-boat Stations on the Kentish coast crossed to Calais on Sunday, 14th August, in the Margate Motor Life-boat Lord Southborough, to be present at the unveiling, on the...
Category: Articles
Community News: South/Midlands/East
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GRENFELL FAMILIES VISIT STATION
The RNLI has been working alongside charity Cornwall Hugs Grenfell to help survivors, firefighters and those who’ve lost loved ones to create new memories and...
Category: Articles
The Danish Motor Fishing Boat Koivisto
ABOUT 10 P.M. on the 23rd December the Coast-guard reported a vessel in distress off Saltfleet, near Doona Nook, in Lincolnshire. The Life-boat crew were assembled and the Boat taken down to the beach, but, as nothing could be seen of the...
National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol
The RNLI's charter docs not make provision (or the preservation of old lifeboats and equipment, and ihc National Lifeboat Museum. Bristol was therefore established as an independent registered charily for this...
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