LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
Thursday, 14th November, 1929.
SIR GODFREY BARING, Bt., in the Chair.
Co-opted Vice-Admiral Sir ARTHUR A. M.
DUFF, K.C.B., a member of the Committee of...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1952
Persons rescued from shipwreck Time of ! Launching 4. 12.15 p.m. Valentia life-boat took a doctor and stores to Blasket Island.
6. 11.20a.m. Sennen Cove life-boat took doctors and a nurse to St. Mary's,...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
CAISTER, NORFOLK,—About 9 o'clock on the evening of Sunday, the 1st October last, during a strong easterly breeze, a brig struck on the Barber Sands, the sea immediately breaking over her. This being observed from the shore, the Caister...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st Oct. To the 31st Dec. 1877
DUNDEE.—On the 5th October, it having been reported that a barque was ashore on the Abertay Sands, the Buddon- ness Life-boat Eleanora, and the English Mechanic Life-boat stationed at Broughty Ferry, proceeded to the sands and found the...
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An Exhibition of Old Bibles
An exhibition of early English bibles, belonging to Mr. E. Newgass, honorary secretary of the Steyning branch, was held in Worthing for the Institution by Mr. J. R. Aldridge, for many years the honotaty secretary at...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE LIFE-BOAT FLEET 155 Motor Life-boats 1 Harbour Pulling Life-boat LIVES RESCUED from the foundation of the Life-boat Service in 1824 to 31st October, 1954 - 78,940 Notes of the Quarter THE cold, wet summer of 1954 was a most...
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Matthew Lethbridge Jnr Bem: Coxswain of St.Mary's Lifeboat By Joan Davies
THE ONLY LIFEBOATMAN AT PRESENT SERVING TO HAVE BEEN AWARDED THREE SILVER MEDALS FOR GALLANTRY by Joan Davies 'Grandfather . . . he was coxswain before Dad; and my Uncle Jim and Dad were both in the lifeboat with...
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An Aircraft
Broughty'[Ferry, Angus.—7th September, 193'J. Shortly after 10 F.M.information was received that an aircraft had dived into the sea three miles N.E. of the North Carr Lightvessel.
The life-boat found nothing, spoke...
On Board the Skegness Life-Boat
The sinking steam-drifter Dusty Miller, from which the life-boat rescued the crew of three, is on the right. On the left is a Dutch oil tanker. She gave the life-boat a lee.
From a photograph by the motor-mechanic, Percy... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Loss of the Pandora
DURING the evening of the 21st of October. 1951, a very sudden gale blew up from the north on the Yorkshire coast, and just after 6.30 next morning the coastguard at Staithes rang up the Runswick life-boat station. A ship could be seen...
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