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Gallons of support

Date: Summer 2014

Volume: 61

Issue: 608 Lifeboat Magazine Summer 2014

Caffeine, alcohol and fizzy drinks were all shunned in favour of water during our new fundraising challenge, H2Only. It was a tough ask for many of our supporters: giving up all drinks except for water for 2 weeks. But they were determined...

Category: Articles

Bridlington: Late on the Evening of Wednesday July 26 Arthur Dick the Honorary Secretary Saw a Small Trawler Pass the Harbour Entrance and Go Ashore on North Be

Date: Autumn 1978

Volume: 46

Issue: 466

Bridlington: Late on the evening of Wednesday July 26 Arthur Dick, the honorary secretary, saw a small trawler pass the harbour entrance and go ashore on North Beach. The Harbour Office was informed and Bridlington's 37ft Oakley lifeboat... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Best Essay

Date: June 1934

Volume: 29

Issue: 318

BY ALFRED ROBINSON (12}), Warple Way Mixed School, Wandsworth.

Why I admire the Life-Boatman.

MOST of us have had the pleasure of a holiday by the sea during the summer, and probably have enjoyed the...

Category: Articles

Dee Jay

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

Dungeness, Kent. At 8 p.m. on I2th August, 1965, a speed boat was reported in distress off Dungeness Point with her engine broken down. The life-boat Mabel E. Holland was launched on the flooding tide at 8.53 in a moderate...

Portrait on the Cover

Date: December 1939

Volume: 31

Issue: 340

THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain William Henry Glendewar, of St. Helier, Jersey. He was an officer of the life-boat for twenty-six years, serving as second-coxswain from January 1913 to March 1919, and then as coxswain until January...

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Alabama, of Goole

Date: August 1876

Volume: 09

Issue: 101

HUNSTANTON.—Early on the 14th April the schooner Alabama, of Goole, while on a voyage from Cliff Creek to Hull was wrecked on the Woolpack Sands, during a gale at E.N.E., accompanied by a heavy fall of snow. The Life-boat Licensed Victualler...

The Screw Steamer Langdale

Date: November 1886

Volume: 13

Issue: 142

SDNDERLAND.—The report of a gun was heard at 7.45 A.M. on the 19th of April, during a light E.N.E. wind, a strong sea, and foggy weather, and the screw steamer, Langdale, of Sunderland, was seen on the North rocks. The No. 1 Life-boat Good...

Building the Fast Slipway Lifeboat—Part II: on the Stocks

Date: Autumn 1980

Volume: 47

Issue: 474

TRADITIONALLY, when building a boat in wood, the first operation is the laying down of the keel from which is built up a framework of stem, transom, bulkheads and other transverse and longitudinal members. When building a small boat in steel...

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A Royal Inspection: on Board With Her Majesty (I to R) Lieut-Commander Harry Teare Divisional Inspector of Lifeboats (Ne) Hrh the Duke of Edinburgh (Hidden) Ca

Date: Summer 1977

Volume: 45

Issue: 461

A royal inspection: on board with Her Majesty (I. to r.), Lieut.-Commander Harry Teare, divisional inspector of lifeboats (NE), HRH The Duke of Edinburgh (hidden), Captain Alexander Kirk, Hartlepool honorary secretary, Commander Bruce Cairns... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Gleaner, of Penzance

Date: October 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 327

Penlee, Cornwall.—On the night of the 19th June a message was received that a boat was ashore near Carn Dhu, Lamorna Bay. There was no wind and the sea was smooth, but there was a very thick fog. The motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at...