LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service Abroad
UNITED STATES.
THE Annual Report of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ending 30th June, 1913, states that 73 lives were lost on the coasts (which includes the coast of the Great...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
THE Life-boat Saturday Fund season for 1900 is now drawing to a close, and it has been one of great anxiety, not only to the Central Committee of the Fund and their officials, but also to the numerous Local Committees and Auxiliaries through...
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The Admiralty Trawler Cape Barracouta
Ramsgate, Kent.—On the 7th October, 1939, two vessels were seen to be ashore on Goodwin Sands. One of them was the Admiralty trawler Cape Barracouta. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. At 11.45A.M. the motor life-boat...
The Sailing Barge Will Everard
Great Yarmouth and Gorlesfon, Norfolk.
—At 6.30 in the evening of the 17th of July, 1949, the coastguard telephoned that a barge was ashore on the Caister Shoal, and the life-boat Louise Stephens was launched at 6.40 in a...
The Life-Boat Stamp Club
Miss MARGARET POWER, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, the honorary secretary of the Life-boat Stamp Club, will be very glad to receive from readers of The Life-boat any stamps of the King Edward VIII issue which they will be...
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The Roumanian Life-Boat Service
ON 14th June, 1933, a life-boat society was established in Roumania. The King was its founder and is its president, and the governor of the National Bank of Roumania is ex officio the vice- president. The full title of the society is...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
Obverse.—Bust of His Majesty KINO EVWAKD VII. Double Legend: "Royal National Lite-boat Institution. Founded in 1824. Incorporated 1860. King Edward VII. Patron."...
Category: Medals
Captain Hans Hansson, Director of the Swedish Lifeboat Service, Speaking at the Annual Meeting. on the Right of the Picture Is the Duchess of Kent.
Captain Hans Hansson, Director of the Swedish Lifeboat Service, speaking at the annual meeting. On the right of the picture is the Duchess of Kent.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) the Headquarters of the Rnli from Which the Operational Control of the Fleet Is Administered By the Chief of Operations and His Staff—Now at Poole
(Above) The headquarters of the RNLI from which the operational control of the fleet is administered by the chief of operations and his stuff—now at Poole.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Danish Gun Boat Vaedderen
Stronsay, Orkneys. At 10.40 a.m. on 8th January, 1965, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that the Danish gunboat Vaedderen had a seriously sick man, the skipper of Grimsby trawler Northern Chief, on board and was proceeding to...