LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Royal Commission on the Loss of Life at Sea
THE " First Report" of this Royal Commission shows clearly the necessity for its appointment, for it contains authoritative evidence of an alarming waste of both life and property in the greatest source of the country's wealth...
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The Thirtieth Arun Snolda (1985)
The thirtieth Arun, Snolda (1985), looks identical to modern boats, but she is the only steel boat in the class. Steel construction proved too expensive.. - View image in PDF
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The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1897
THE BOARD OP TRADE have recently! issued their very interesting Annual Blue Book, furnishing abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping casualties occurring on or near the coasts of the United Kingdom. The statistics now...
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The Ex-R.N.L.I. Life-Boat The Ivy Dale
Humber, Yorkshire.—At 9.30 in the morning of the 3rd of June, 1952, the Spurn . Point coastguard telephoned that an ex-R.N.L.I. life-boat, the Ivy Dale, of London, had run ashore off Withernsea and had damaged her rudder. She asked for the...
Broken on the Goodwins
The French Steamer Agen (See page 317). - View image in PDF
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The Lord Killanin,
April 1999 The Lord Killanin, a Life Vice President of the RNLI. The Lord Killanin joined the Committee of Management in 1959 and was appointed a Vice President in 1972 and a Life Vice President in 1989.. - View image in PDF
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Spot the Difference
The above photograph shows Skerries Hfeboat crew member. Mart,n O'Toole wfth Storm Force hero, Stormy Stan at have been a bit of a role model for Stan, has been on the crew since the D class was stat,oned in Skerries in the early... - View image in PDF
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The Winning Touch
.ie RNLI's competition to find photos to help launch its 175th Anniversary Year , at the London Boat Show in January produced some stunning shots. The six winners are reproduced here - the overall winner gets £150 of photographic...
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The Duchess of Kent
The Duchess of Kent, President of the Institution, visited the life-boat stations at Cromer and Sheringham on 23rd May, met Coxswain Henry Blogg and Coxswain James Dumble and their crews, and saw the Sheringham life-boat launched.
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