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Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar
SEPTEMBER 7th, 1938, will be the hundredth anniversary of the rescue by Grace Darling and her father William Darling, of the Longstone Lighthouse, Northumberland, of the nine survivors of the Dundee steamer Forfarshire. The Institution has...
Category: Advertisement
A Difficult Launch at Exmouth
At 5.30 in the morning of 15th January, 1938, the life-boat station at Exmouth, Devon, was informed that rockets had been seen off Lyme Regis, and it was decided to launch the motor life-boat Catherine Harriet Eaton. A gale was blowing from...
Category: Services
Duplex Craft
Duplex Craft has produced two versions of a 12th scale plastic kit for an Atlantic 21 lifeboat model based on the Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Atlantic: one version is for a static model (price £24.95), the other for a working,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Sea Festival
Arbroath Sea Fest held over 16 and 17 August 1997 proved to be a huge success for RNLI fundraisers - donations totalled £1.300, with the sales outlet raising £550.
The glorious weather attracted some 10,000 people... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Two Fine Services
Plymouth.
ON the 3rd October the Plymouth Life- boat was launched shortly before 10 P.M., in a strong southerly gale, with heavy rain and a very heavy sea, to the help of a vessel which had been driven ashore on the eastern...
Category: Services
The Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition
IT will be remembered that this com- petition was started in 1918 and proved a great success, over 5,000 schools taking part. It was continued in the two following years, and though each year there was a considerable decrease in the number...
Category: Articles
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...
Category: Articles
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1889
matters connected with the sea must necessarily be of deep interest to the population of a great maritime nation such as ours, dependent to so great an extent, even for the common necessaries of life, on those that " go down to the sea...
Category: Articles
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
A Boat (1)
On the South and East Coasts.
On the south coast the Weymouth Motor Life-boat was out for nearly six hours, from 6.30 in the evening until after midnight, in response to the S.U.S.
of the steam-tanker M....