LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Chancellor of the Exchequer at Gorleston
A visit in December, 1938 With Sir John Simon are Coxswain Charles A. Johnson, on his left, and officials of the branch. - View image in PDF
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Wreck Chart of the British Isles for 1853 (1)
IN continuation of the Wreck Chart for 1852, issued with our January number of last year, we now present our readers with that for the following year, 1853. In glancing over the borders of the Chart, and observing the black dots which fringe...
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An Aeroplane (2)
JANUARY 10TH. - BARMOUTH, MERIONETHSHIRE.
A British aircraft had crashed into the sea, but no survivors were found and an attempt to tow the aeroplane into shallow water failed. - Rewards, £17 5s..
Despite Forceful Persuasion the Raft Dear Lady Seems Reluctant to Enter the Water As the Only All-Lady Crew the Member of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Guild Were Competing In a Raft Race Org
Despite forceful persuasion the raft Dear Lady seems reluctant to enter the water.
As the only all-lady crew, the member of Great Yarmouth and Gorleston guild were competing in a raft race organised by Gorleston Chamber of... - View image in PDF
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The Life-Boat Transporting-Carriage
The Life-boat transporting-carriage is a very important auxiliary to the boat.
Every Life-boat, except a few of the larger size, is provided with a carriage, on which she is kept in the boat-house ready for immediate...
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The Harwich Steam Life-Boat Proceeding to the Stranded Schooner Notre Dame De Toutes Aides on the 7th April, 1908
The Harwich Steam Life-Boat Proceeding To The Stranded Schooner Notre Dame De Toutes Aides on the 7th April 1908. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Cardiff Brook
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 6.45 on the evening of the 20th of December, 1958, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that there was a badly injured man aboard the S.S. Cardiff Brook of London. A doctor had been taken...
The S.S.Locksley
Berwick » on - Tweed, Northumberland.
—Very early on the morning of the 9th March, 1938, the coastguard reported that the s.s.Locksley, of Montrose, bound from Stonehaven for Stockton-on-Tees with a cargo of oats and...
Education of Seamen, and Marine Schools
THERE are still many persons in this country, although they are doubtless a diminishing number, who maintain that the education ol the lower classes of society is injurious to them, as unfitting them for the station in which they were born,...
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Focus . . . on Plymouth
This series of descriptive articles on visits to life-boat stations was begun by Margaret Peter. It is being continued by Stephen Mogridge, who writes about Plymouth in the first of his contributions.
WITH the Navy watching...
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