LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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King John, of Dover
SEPTEMBER 21ST. - RAMSGATE, KENT.
At 10.32 at night a message was received through the coastguard from a tug attending on the S.S. Helena Modjeska, which had gone aground east of North West Goodwin Buoy on the 12th of...
From the Director
Brian Miles, Director of the RNLI, looks back on 1990 - and forward into the new decade and beyond The deadline for the Winter journal brought home to me that another year has elapsed, a year which I believe has been one of continuing and...
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And Another £227—With 75P Extra—Was Collected By Mr Swift of the Blue Posts Newman Street London Wl He Raised This Magnificent Sum Since July 1972 By Using
And another £227—with 75p extra—was collected by Mr Swift of The Blue Posts, Newman Street, London, Wl. He raised this magnificent sum since July 1972 by using his lifeboat box as a 'swear box' and by holding an annual Christmas... - View image in PDF
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The Lady Provost of Glasgow, Mrs Ann Irons, Draws the Winning Ticket In the Scottish Region for a Volvo Car. Standing Beside Her Is His Grace the Duke of Atholl,
The Lady Provost of Glasgow, Mrs Ann Irons, draws the winning ticket in the Scottish Region for a Volvo car. Standing beside her is His Grace the Duke of Atholl, convenor of the Scottish Lifeboat Council. - View image in PDF
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Miss Ann, of Paignton
JULY 18TH. - TORBAY, DEVON. At 11.7 at night the Brixham coastguard reported that the Torquay police had received a 999 telephone call which said that a whistle had been heard from a boat apparently in distress half a mile east of Roundham...
Walker Hall, of Sunderland
THURSO, N.B.—Eleven lives were saved by the Life-boat Charley Lloyd, on the afternoon of the 7th March. On that day a heavy gale was blowing from W.N.W., when the barque Walker Hall, of Sunderland, having dragged her anchors from Scrabster...
Peep Into the Past
100 years ago The Autumn ' 906Life-boatJournat congratulated female fundraisers for their hard work after another successful Lifeboat Saturday: 'They are less ready to take a refusal than the "sterner"sex, and, this being...
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Register of Shipwrecks
REGISTER OF SHIPWRECKS ON THE COASTS
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The S.S. Florence
On 9th December, 1915, the s.s. Florence, of Stockton, whilst bound from London to Newcastle with a cargo of oil stranded on the "Middle Binks." It was a very dark night and blowing a strong gale, with a terrible sea running over...