LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Hope in the Great War
'SIR, As I was an eyewitness of them, I think it may be of interest to you to have a narrative of the events which led up to – what I have no hesitation in calling – one of the most gallant rescues in the annals of the...
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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
The Joseph and Mary, 84 feet by &i feet, 10 oars.
THE port of Poole is situated on the N.E. shore of the picturesque bay of that name. When the tide is in, and the extensive mud flats covered, the scenery is striking...
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Classified Advertisements
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Membership News
G o v e r n o r s • S h o r e l i n e • S t o r m F o r c e Positive Reactions There's an old saying: 'It only takes one spark to start a fire.' Well, the spark in this case was the Spring issue'spiece 'Moving with the...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...
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Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 8.—The Dover Life-Boat for the Help of Aeroplanes
AT Dover is stationed the only motor life-boat of this type, specially designed for the special conditions of the Straits, across which there is not only the heavy passenger steamer traffic, but a con- siderable daily traffic by aeroplanes,...
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Notes of the Quarter
IN 1958, for the third year in succession, life-boats were launched on service more than 700 times. The total number of launches was 714, or two fewer than the figure for 1957. Before 1956 there were only two years in which lifeboats were...
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Services by Shore-Boats (9)
CAPE CLEAR, Co. CORK. On 24th September, 1939, explosions were heard at sea about two o’clock in the afternoon.
They came from the S.S. Hazelside, of Newcastle, a timber-laden steamer which was in distress through enemy...
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A New Type of Motor Life-Boat for Liverpool
Under the heading " More Motor Life-boats " the following letter from the Secretary of the Institution appeared in the Liverpool Journal of Commerce on the 22nd April, 1920 :.— SIR,—I have read with much pleasure in a recent issue...
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Blue Peter Scrapbook
Words: Philly Byrde
Research: Hayley Whiting
Photos: Nicholas Leach, RNLI Archive,
RNLI/(Chris Cousens, Fishguard)
Fifty years ago, the very first Blue Peter lifeboats went to their new...
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