LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Pram Instead of Car.
On life-boat day in Manchester and Salford one of the members of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild, a city councillor of Manchester, delivered her collecting boxes, and took her money to the bank, in a baby's pram..
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The Weather During the Year 1889
To the seaman the weather experienced during the year 1889 must be considered as exceptionally favourable, for, like its predecessors 1887 and 1888, storms were of very rare occurrence in the British Islands, and as a necessary consequence,...
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Picture: He May Look Mean
Picture: He may look mean bui Larry the lobster raised £300 for the lifeboats. - View image in PDF
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Books
For the Yachtsman Skipper's Cockpit Guide ISBN 0713652 799 By Bo Streiffert Published by Adtard Coles Nautical Among our supporters are many people who go to sea both for their work and for their leisure and it is the leisure market at...
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Books
Books...
• Those who help to launch lifeboats can often be regarded as the forgotten heroes and heroines of a rescue, but at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea they are determined that the women launchers, whose exploits twice brought...
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The Life-Saving Apparatus Ready for Action
On the left is a line-throwing gun, mounted on a [carnage. The man next to it is carrying a spare line and projectile. On the right is a cliff ladder.. - View image in PDF
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Dog Tired
Word came on 7 April that a dog was in trouble off Dynamite quay, St Ives – and that a man was about to try to rescue it. The tide was rushing out of the estuary, making any such attempt by a swimmer extremely dangerous. When the D class...
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A Doctor's Ten Hours at Sea
Mr. James Hall, M.B., B.S., F.R C.S., who went out four times in the Walmer life-boat in forty hours to the help of sick seamen. In the first six months of the war, he went out to sick seamen more than eighty times, eight of them in the life... - View image in PDF
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Local heroes
Arbroath’s Mersey class lifeboat Inchcape launched at 9.45pm on 26 November 2010, to go to the aid of a fishing boat in difficulty in 6m seas and force 8 winds. If the vessel had maintained her course, she would have gone aground on Gaa...
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Showing the Flag:
Showing the flag: after swimming 100 lengths of his local swimming bath in Ihr 37mins Ken Wielding of the Urmston branch raised £921.60 in sponsorship. Ken approached local firms and friends for support of this effort which is only the... - View image in PDF
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