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Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1785-1900. No. 3

Date: November 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 198

IN the last number of the Life-boat Journal (August, 1900) this sketch was taken up to 1840, when the Liverpool type of Life-boat came into use, and the improvements in that type were traced up to the present date.

About...

Category: Articles

Life-Boat Christmas Card and Calendar

Date: October 1949

Volume: 32

Issue: 351

THIS year there will again be a Christ- mas card and pocket calendar for sale.

The card is of eight pages with the Institution's crest embossed on the out- side. Inside are Christmas greetings and a picture in colours...

Category: Advertisement

An R.A.F. Launch

Date: December 1966

Volume: 39

Issue: 418

Boulmer, Northumberland - At 5.30 p.m. on 28th August, 1966, a small boat was reported in difficulties near the reef. At 5.39 the life-boat Robert and Dorothy Hardcastle was launched in a light easterly breeze and a moderate...

An Admiralty Trawler

Date: 1940

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1940

JULY 22ND. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.

At 1.45 P.M. the coastguard reported that an Admiralty trawler had been blown up off the end of the breakwater. The weather was fine with a calm sea. The motor life-boat A.E.D. was launched...

An Aeroplane (57)

Date: 1942

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1942

JULY 3 0TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.

At 1.47 A.M. a local resident telephoned that an aeroplane had come down in flames off Cley, and the motor life-boat Foresters Centenary was launched at 3.42 A.M.

The sea...

New Ways of Raising Money

Date: December 1958

Volume: 35

Issue: 386

The Chairman of the Failsworth, Lancashire, Urban District Council, Mr. George Edge, has adopted the lifeboat service as his particular charity during his year of office and is trying to persuade a thousand organisations or individuals each...

Category: Donations

Sci Funds An Atlantic

Date: Autumn 1999

Volume: 57

Issue: 550

SCI funds an Atlantic Peter Hindley, Chief Executive Officer of Service Corporation International (SCI) recently drew the winning ticket in the company's national raffle in aid of the RNLI.

The raffle along with many... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Gifts from Crews

Date: June 1929

Volume: 27

Issue: 298

On the 17th May, 1928, the Ramsgate Motor Life-boat saved the schooner Isabella, of Barrow, which was in distress in a moderate northerly gale, and rescued her crew of four men. Out of the salvage money received, the Life-boat Crew have made...

Category: Donations

January 29 1976: British Airways Helicopter Lifts Off Crew of 17 from Trawler Ben Gulvain When With Engine Failure She Had Run Aground Near Aberdeen In Gale Force Winds

Date: Winter 1976

Volume: 44

Issue: 455

January 29, 1976: British Airways helicopter lifts off crew of 17 from trawler Ben Gulvain when, with engine failure, she had run aground near Aberdeen in gale force winds.

photograph by courtesy of Miss I. M.... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Formosa

Date: November 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 126

FERRYSIDE, CARMARTHEN BAY. — At3 P.M. on the 29th April, just before high water, the yacht Formosa, of Carmarthen, started with four men on board to try to save some drowning cattle, which had strayed on to the Cefn Sidan Sand and had been...