LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
THE ISLE OF PURBECK, AND ITS LIFE- BOATS.
XLI. — SWANAGE.— The Charlotte and Mary, 35 feet by 9 feet, 10 oars.
XLII.—KIMERIDGE.—The Mary Heape, 28 feet by 6 feet 8 inches, 5 oars.
THIS...
Category: Articles
"The Merchant Shipping Bill of 1869." (Second Article.)
IN our last Number we gave a summary of this most important Bill, which we trust will be consummated as the " Merchant Shipping Act, 1870," in the next Session of Parliament.
We likewise commented on those...
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'Jet Propelled':
'Jet propelled': It is not everyone who can lay their hands on a multi-million pound ami-submarine frigate powered by two Rolls-Royce engines, normally found powering jet aircraft, for a spot of... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
A LIFEBOAT DISASTER may have been narrowly averted last December. Soon after the Padstow lifeboat had launched late in the evening of December 7, she was struck by three exceptionally heavy seas. A considerable weight of water dropped almost...
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The Caister Life-Boat Disaster
THE terrible disaster which overtook one of the Life-boats belonging to the Institution, stationed at Caister on the coast of Norfolk, in November last will be fresh in the minds of our readers.
The expressions of sympathy...
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The Removal of Wrecks Act, 1877, Amendment Act, 1889
NOT the least important work dene by the Legislature during this year's session has been the passing of an Act to amend the " Eemoval of Wrecks Act, 1877." Prior to this Act becoming law no provision existed for the removal of...
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Italian Medals for Cromer
THE Italian Government has awarded medals to the Cromer life-boat crew for their gallantry in rescuing thirty men from the steamer Monte Nevoso, of Genoa, in October, 1932. The steamer had stranded on the Haisborough Sands and had broken her...
Category: Medals
The Southern Africa
THE second of three life-boats which are a gift to the British Life-boat Service from the people of Southern Africa, was stationed at Dover in 1949. The first, named the Field- Marshal and Mrs. Smuts, went to Beaumaris, Anglesey, in 1945....
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A Broadcast History of the Life-Boat Service
AN hour's programme on the Life-boat Service was broadcast by the B.B.C.
in its Home Service on- Sunday, the •23rd of November, under the title "On Life-saving Service." It told the story of the Service from...
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St Simeon (2)
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...