LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Breadwinner
Dover, Kent.—At 12.43 in the morn- ing, on the 6th of April, 1950, the Sandgate coastguard reported that the S.S. Shepperton Ferry had wirelessed that a fishing vessel had broken down two and a quarter miles south-east of the South Goodwin...
The Scottish Drifter Sunbeam
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 7.29 on the evening of the 8th of November, 1957, the coast- guard reported that an urgent call for help had been received from the Scottish drifter Sunbeam. She had an injured man on board, who was...
Peep Into the Past
A fascinating glimpse of the Lifeboat archives nto the pasL 100 years ago The spring 1906 edition of the then Life-boat Journal reported there was a large demand for the barometers that the RNLI offered to professional mariners at a reduced...
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The Gorton Lightvessel
LANDED SICK MAN At 6.15 p.m. the following day a superintendent of Trinity House requested that a sick man be landed from Gorton lightvessel. The man needed medical attention and no other suitable boat was available. It was nearly low...
Visits to the Storeyard
OF the many thousands of Londoners who give their help to the Life-boat Service probably very few realize that there is a fleet of Life-boats in London itself—the reserve Life-boats of THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITU- TION, which are...
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The John and Edmund
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About 10 P.M. on the 7th December the coxswain of the No. 3 Life-boat observed a signal light being burned from a vessel in the bay, apparently making for West Hartlepool. The ship suddenly altered her course, and ran...
(Above) the Lerwick Crew
/Above) The ierwick crew left to right: Ian ieask. crew member; Michael Grant, crew member; Brian Laurenson, Emergency Mechanic; Peter Thomson. Emergency Mechanic; Richie Simpson, 2nd coxswain and Hewitt Clark, coxswain/mechanic.. - View image in PDF
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The Finnish Steamer Otava
On the 8th June the Finnish steamer Otava, of Helsingfors, ran aground in a thick fog at Tunstall, about twenty miles south of Bridlington. She was bound for Hull with a cargo of timber, and carried a crew of sixteen. A moderate N.E....
The Life-Boat Regulations
THE following Eegulations are intended for the guidance of the Local Committee to be formed at each place at which a life-boat is stationed by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and to whose care and control the life-boat, her crew, and...
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A Happy 'Lifeboat' Crew! May Lands Infants' Class 6 (4% to Five Years) Adopted the Rnli As Their Project for a Term They Organised a Raffle a Fair a Sponsored Walk Roun
A happy 'lifeboat' crew! May lands Infants' class 6 (4% to five years) adopted the RNLI as their project for a term. They organised a raffle, a fair, a sponsored walk round the playground and even composed a song. £160 was... - View image in PDF
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