LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1891
OF all the Blue Books printed year by year for " Her Majesty's Stationery Office," probably not one communicates such deeply interesting information as that to be found in the volume containing the elaborate Tables drawn up and...
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The 37Ft 6in Rother Class
The 37ft din Rother class lifeboat Shoreline is stationed at Blyth. The station honorary secretary is Dr Reginald Carr (I.) who is also Blyth's honorary medical adviser. He is a busy GP and when a call for the lifeboat comes while he is... - View image in PDF
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The Motor Fishing Coble Doris
DECEMBER 9TH. - FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. About 5.45 P.M . it was learned that the motor fishing coble Doris had not returned. On board was the lifeboat coxswain, George Leng, with a crew of three. It was very dark, with a rough sea and a...
The Life-Boat Stamp Club
THE Life-boat Stamp Club, which was started at the end of 1933 by Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Qommon, Cobham, Surrey, honorary secretary of the Cobham branch of the Institution, now has a branch of its own at Cromer. This branch...
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The End of Hms Foudroyant
The end of HMS Foudroyant, one of Nelson's flagships which in her last years was used as a training ship for boys. White anchored off Blackpool on June 16, 1897, a gale blew up and she dragged aground. The lifeboat Samuel Fletcher of... - View image in PDF
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The Motor Coble Royal Empire
— At 10.15 A.M. on 26th March it was re- ported by a fisherman that the motor coble Royal Empire, of Whitby, was in difficulties three miles N.E. by E. of Runswick and drifting before a strong S.E. gale with a heavy sea. The report was...
Long Service Awards
The Long Service Badge for crew members and shore helpers who have given active service for 20 years or more has been awarded to: Aberdovey - Shore Helper D.R. Williams Aith - Coxswain K. Henry Angle - Crew Member R. O'Callaghan...
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H.M. The Queen Inspecting the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Life-Boat Crew During the Royal Tour of the Island Which She Made In July, Accompanied By the Duke of Edinburgh, Who Is Seen Below With the Crew of the IRB
H.M. The Queen Inspecting the Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, Life-Boat Crew During the Royal Tour of the Island Which She Made In July, Accompanied By the Duke of Edinburgh, Who Is Seen Below With the Crew of the IRB. - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Service Abroad
United States.
Tins service is, as our readers are aware, a State service, and is the only one entirely managed, administered and sup- ported by the State, except the Danish Life-boat Service. In January, 191#f an...
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The Life-Belt Used By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a Life-boat man's life- belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibs., to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, or to enable him to support another person besides...
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