LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-boat Dinner at the Authors' Club
THE first of the Life-boat Centenary celebrations in London was a dinner at the Authors' Club on 29th January, at which Mr. George F. Shee, M.A., the Secretary of the Institution, an old mem- ber of the Club, presided, and at which Sir...
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The S.S. Hylton
ALDEBURGH.—In response to messages by telephone received on the 15th February while a whole gale was blowing from S. by W., the Eeserve Life-boat, temporarily placed at this station, was launched at 10.30 P.M. Terrific seas were breaking on...
Rask
Berwick - on - Tweed, Northumberland; and Dunbar, East Lothian.—At 7.35 in the morning on the 31st of January, 1950, the Berwick coastguard telephoned the Berwick life-boat authorities that a railway signalman had reported a vessel...
Rnli Shoreline
How even a non-swimmer can save someone from drowning " Join Shoreline now. Why Shoreline ? Last year the RNLI saved • over 1,750 lives. This year we expect to save even more. In order to maintain the service we need m every...
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Letters And Reader Information
Letters To add your opinion, write to The Editor at RNLI Headquarters or email [email protected] Dear Editor As a landlocked landlubber, I sometimes wondered why I joined the RNLI as a Shoreline Member many years ago. I was so...
Category: Correspondence
Feature Lifeboats on the Thames
On 20 August 1989 the pleasure cruiser Marchioness and dredger Bowbelle collided on London's River Thames beneath Southwark Bridge. The accident, which cost the lives of 51 people, led to demands for a fundamental review of emergency...
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Elephant
The tubular life-boat was likewise the means of rendering good service to another shipwrecked crew on the 19th October.
During the previous night a very severe gale had swept over Liverpool and its neigh- bourhood, and...
Ex-Coxswain William Brown, of Cresswell
Ex-coxswain William Brown, of Cresswell, Northumberland, died on the 18th April at the age of seventy-three. He was a member of one of two families, both named Brown, who in that small village compose the Life-boat crew, while the wives,...
Category: Obituaries
Cheboque, of The Royal Canadian Navy
OCTOBER 11TH - 12TH. THE MUMBLES, GLAMORGANSHIRE. The frigate Cheboque, of the Royal Canadian Navy, had been torpedoed in the Atlantic eleven hundred miles away, with the loss of one of her crew of forty-three, and severe damage to her stern...
Competitive Trials With Pulling Life-Boats
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION carried out at Lowestoft in 1892 a series of competitive trials and tests with, sailing Life-boats the details of which were subsequently published. The trials with the various types of pulling Life-boats...
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