LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
HOWTH, Co. DUBLIN.—The Life-boat on this station has been replaced by a new 10-oared Life-boat, 34 feet long and 8 feet wide, constructed according to the latest designs. The cost of the new Life-boat, which is named the Tom and Ida,...
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"Lest We Forget." November 11th, 1891: November 11th, 1918
By the Rev. WILBERFORCE ROBINS, Honorary Secretary of the Seaton Branch.
Mr. Robins, who became the honorary secretary of the Seaton branch last year, has an association of nearly fifty years with the life-boat service....
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New Quay, Cardiganshire.—At 9.0 in the morning of the I Oth of February, 1952, the police telephoned that a man had been missing from his home since five o'clock the previous evening and was thought to have fallen over a...
Index to Advertisers
Birds Eye Foods Brooke Marine Ltd L. J. Bushnell & Partners Cleghorn Waring & Co. (Pumps) Ltd Coastal Radio Ltd Cogswell & Harrison Ltd Fairy Marine Group 198 Inside Front Cover 228 231 232 228 Outside Back Cover Gardner Engines...
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Rescue By Scottish Police Sergeant
FOR his part in the rescue of three bathers off the Sutherland coast on the 10th August, 1967, Sergeant Andrew Lister of the Ross and Sutherland Constabulary has been accorded the thanks of the Institution inscribed on...
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Life-Boats for Men-Of-War
IT has for a long period been the opinion of many naval officers, that every man-of war should be provided with an efficient life-boat; and we have from time to time advocated the same in this Journal. We are glad to know that there is now a...
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The Rye Life-Boat Disaster
The Mayor of Rye's Fund; Mcmcrials to the Seventeen Life-boatmen.
ON 22nd June a meeting was held between the Attorney-General (Sir William* Jowitt, E.G.) and the Trustees of the Fund which the Mayor of Rye raised for...
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October
Launches 45 Lives rescued 66 OCTOBER 4TH. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
On the night of the 3rd of October, HMS. Cam, with a crew of twenty-two, was being towed to West Hartlepool for repairs, by the American deep sea tug W.S.A.2....
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
GROOMSPORT, IRELAND.—A new life-boat has been stationed at Groomsport, County Down, by the NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, and a branch of the Society established there. Lying at the entrance to the bay of Belfast, this station will afford a...
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Vessel overdue
On Tuesday 24 June, Julie Maskell had just arrived for duty in the RNLI Operations room at Poole. She settled into her chair and hoped for a quiet evening. Moments later, at 6pm, she received a call from Arqiva’s control room. As well as...
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