LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
District Conferences In the North of England and London
CONFERENCES ! We live in an age of Conferences. Never have there been so many. They range over the whole field of human activity, social, political, economic and scientific. At one moment we see the representative statesmen of the world...
Category: Meetings
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On the 19th of August, 1952, the bowman of the Bridlington life-boat lost his life when the life-boat went to the help of two girls who had got into difficulties while bathing. Awards: the thanks of the Institution inscribed on vellum to...
Listings
Daniel L Gibson A £2M Severn class lifeboat was officially named at Hull Marina on Thursday, 24 July 2003.
The cost of the lifeboat, which is now part of the relief fleet, was met by a substantial bequest from the...
Category: Articles
A Hundred Years Ago
Extract from The Life-boat dated the 1st of October, 1858 Meetings of the Committee Thursday, 1st July, 1858. Thomas Chapman Esq., V.P., F.R.S., in the Chair.
The Committee voted their thanks to the London, Brighton and...
Category: Articles
A Corner In Cumbria: Workington Silloth and St.Bees Three Lifeboat Stations on the Solway Firth and Its Southern Approaches
THREE CUMBRIAN STATIONS, St BeeS, Workington and Silloth, complementing each other, are the guardians of the southern approaches to the Firth of Solway and of the firth itself, just as Kirkcudbright and Kippford guard the waters to the north...
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The Naming of the 52Ft Relief Lifeboat Dwctoso/Ken/
THE PERFECT SUNNY AFTERNOON of Tu6Sday April 27 seemed to take on extra brightness when Their Royal Highnesses, The Duke and Duchess of Kent arrived at the Jubilee Gardens, South Bank, to name the relief 52ft Arun lifeboat Duchess of Kent....
Category: Articles
Francoise Delille and the U.S. Motor Vessel American Builder (1)
Holyhead, Anglesey and Porthdinllaen, Caernarvonshire. At 6 a.m. on 20th December, 1963, the coastguard informed the Porthdinllaen honorary secretary thata French fishingvesselwas leaking badly thirty miles west of Bardsey...
Anja
Torbay, Devon. At 4.23 on the after- noon of the 13th of February, 1961, the coastguard informed the honorary sec- retary that the Dutch motor vessel Anja of Foxhol was on fire five miles east of Start Point. The life-boat Lloyd's, on...
An Aeroplane (27)
AUGUST 5TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
An aeroplane had dived into the sea, but only wreckage was found. - Rewards, £18 1s..
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SEPTEMBER 28TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
Lights, which might have been from an airman baled out from an aeroplane, had been reported, but nothing was found.- Rewards, £15 17s. 6d..