LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Two lifeboats in search for car in tragic cliff-fall The RNLI's chairman, Michael Vemon, has written to the coxswain of Eastbourne's All-weather lifeboat commending him on his actions during a service on 23 June 1990. The helmsman of...
The S.S. Ardangorm
JANUARY 4TH. - FOWEY, CORNWALL.
At 3.10 A.M. a message was received that distress signals were being fired from a vessel off Chapel Point, near Mevagissey. A fresh E.S.E. wind was blowing, with a very heavy sea. The weather...
Shore-Boat Services Rewarded By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution In 1884
Jan. 3.—Voted 201. to the crew of the Salvage I Life-boat, Refuge, of Gorleston, for saving the crew, consisting of two men, of the sloop Freedom, of Boston, which was wrecked on the Cross Sand during a strong wind from the N.N.W. and a high...
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Fendyke (1)
Knockdown A COASTER, Fendyke, in trouble off Carnoustie a few miles north of the entrance to the River Tay was reported to the honorary secretary (operations)of Broughty Ferry lifeboat station, who is also the harbour master, by HM...
Dublin Spring Sale By Joan Davies
DROP A PEBBLE into the water, and who knows where the ripples will end? Fifteen years ago Mrs Montague Kavanagh suggested that the Dublin Lifeboat Committee should hold an annual sale of work as a major fundraising effort. In essence it was...
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Books
The Little Ships of Dunkirk by Christian Brann, published by Collectors' Books at £24.50 ISBN 0 946604 02 9 In late May and early June 1939 the name of a small Flanders port became a household word, a name which even now, almost...
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Whitby's 'Codfish'
In connection with the photograph of the codfish collecting box at Whitby, which appeared on page 172 of the October issue of THE LIFE-BOAT, it has been pointed out that the photograph was taken by Mr. A. Greenwood, of York, and that the man...
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Seas at New Brighton on November 23rd, 1938
Seas at New Brighton On November 23rd 1938. - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Services Round the Coasts
LAUNCHES AND LIVES SAVED BY LIFE-BOATS AND IRBs 1st June to 31st August: Launches 820, lives saved 387.
JUNE NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Holyhead, Anglesey - At 10.23 p.m.
on 25th June, 1966, a boy was reported to...
Category: Services
Blue Peter I I I the Present 16' D Class Inshore Lifeboat on Summer Exercise Crew Members Are Out on Exercise Every Sunday Morning from the Beginning of April Until The
Blue Peter I I I , the present 16' D class inshore lifeboat on summer exercise. - View image in PDF
Crew members are out on exercise every Sunday morning from the beginning of April until the end of October.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs