LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
February
FEBRUARY Launches 88. Lives rescued 248.
FEBRUARY 1ST. - ST. IVES, CORNWALL.
At 4.6 P.M. the naval authorities at Penzance sent a message through the coastguard asking for the life-boat to go out with a...
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One of the Last Launches of John and Henrietta In 1916 Assisted By the Army
One of the last launches of John and Henrietta, in 1916, assisted by the army.. - View image in PDF
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Schiedam, of Middlesborough
On the 4th of the following month (December), the brig Schiedam, of Middles- borough, bound from Seaham to South- ampton with coals, foundered at sea off the Yorkshire coast soon after midnight.
The master and crew of 5...
Mrs. R. Buchan, Wife of Coxswain R. Buchan, of the Humber Life-Boat, Reading a Letter of Commendation from the Lord Mayor of Hull
Mrs R Buchan Wife of Coxswain R Buchan of the Humber Life-Boat Reading A Letter of Commendation From The Lord Mayor of Hull. - View image in PDF
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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 lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy, 22 Ibe., 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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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 lifebelt are— 1. Sufficient extra bouyanoy, 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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Services of Life-Boats
Cullercoats, Northumberland. -— On the 24th August last, a fishing-lugger, belong- ing to Sunderland, having struck on a sunken anchor, became disabled, and drove amongst the rocks oft' Cullercoats Harbour, the wind blowing strong from...
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Relief - Mersey Class Royal Shipwright
HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the RNLI, aboard the relief Mersey class lifeboat Royal Shipwright after her naming ceremony at Greenwich. (Photo Jeff Morris). - View image in PDF
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Thirty-Three Months of War.
In the first thirty-three months of war life-boats have rescued 4754 lives. They have rescued more lives in these thirty-three months of war than in the last thirteen years of peace..
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At a Coffee Evening Held to Mark the Retirement of Erdington
At a coffee evening held to mark the retirement of Erdington, Birmingham, branch honorary treasurer Mr H. Higton, seen here (I.) shaking hands with chairman Reginald Wood, £60 was raised; this brought the branch's takings to a very... - View image in PDF
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