LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Gentle Tap from Robert Morley on a Salmanazar Champagne Bottle Releases £15065 In Pound Notes Pennies and Half-Pennies Collected for the Rnll By the White
A gentle tap from Robert Morley on a Salmanazar champagne bottle releases £150.65 in pound notes, pennies and half-pennies collected for the RNLl by The White Hart public house at Margrave between June last year and March. Ian Malim.... - View image in PDF
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Other IRB Launches
In addition to the services by IRBs which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 267, 283, and 304, the following launches on service were made during the months June to August, 1967, inclusive: Aberdovey,...
Category: Services
The Lizzie Male, of Padstow
NEWQUAY, CORNWALL.—At daybreak on the 29th January the Lizzie Male, of Padstow, bound from Swansea to Fecamp, was observed riding at anchor, dismasted, and with a distress signal flying. She was off Towan Head, four miles from the Life-boat...
The Fishing Trawlers Perseverance, and the Ellen and Ann
LLANDUDNO.—The Sunlight No. 1 Lifeboat, manned by its efficient crew, rendered its first service in saving life during the heavy gale which prevailed along the coast on the 7th October. Early that morning two fishing trawlers from Hoylake,...
The "Charles Dibdin."
The naming ceremony at Walmer, Kent, on 2Ist September. (Set page 176.). - View image in PDF
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Notes of the Quarter
Figures already available show that 1965 was a year of outstanding achievement for the life-boat service. In 1964 an all-time record for launches by rescue craft of the RNLI was established. In that year life-boats were launched 929 times...
Category: Articles
The Best Essay
By VIOLET GLOAG (12J) Ann Street School, Dundee.
What are the Qualities which make a Good Life-boatman ? ONE of the most essential noble qualities that make a good life-boatman is that of bravery. His is not the bravery...
Category: Articles
The Trinity House Vessel Reculver
JANUARY 9TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON. NORFOLK. At 1 0 A.M. an explosion was heard to the north-east of the life-boat station, and the Gorleston coastguard reported that the Caister Look-out had seen aircraft diving towards the sea,...
Dover's Thames Class Rotary Service Demonstrates Her Ability to Deal With Some Heavy Weather - Just One of the Reasons for Her Crew's Affection for Her.
Dover's Thames class Rotary Service demonstrates her ability to deal with some heavy weather - just one of the reasons for her crew's affection for her.
Rotary Service was the lifeboat involved in the service during... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XII.—GROOMSPORT.
The Florence, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, ! 10 oars. j A LIFE-BOAT was first stationed at this small i fishing port by the Institution in 1858; in 1867 it ! was replaced by the present boat, the...
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