LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature Coming of Age
The RNLI has been saving lives at sea for 178 years. Beach Rescue has only been a part of this for two years, but it has come a long way since its formation as a trial project in early 2001 The RNLI became involved in Beach Rescue as a...
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Exe, of Exeter
During squally weather, on the 28th March, 1872, the barque Exe, of Exeter, went on the New- come Sand in a very dangerous position.
The Kessingland No. 1 Life-boat, the Bolton, was promptly launched to her as- sistance ;...
Is This An Answer? the Story of the Lifeboat Memorial Book By the Lord Saltoun, MC
A SOCIETY can be very highly organised without being at all civilised. To send a rocket to a distant planet is a wonderful demonstration of a society's technical and scientific capacity, but tells one nothing about its degree of...
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The Rescue of Drowning Persons
THE RESCUE OF DROWNING PERSONS.
THE summer of 1868 will long be remembered by the present generation in the British Isles as the most extraordinary within their recollection ; for what With the long continuance of almost...
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Wreck of the Indian Chief. Noble Services of the "Bradford" Life-Boat
THE accompanying graphic accounts of the wreck of the Indian Chief, and of the noble rescue of a portion of her crew by the Bradford self-righting Life-boat, sta- tioned at Ramsgate, appeared in the Daily Telegraph on the 11th and 18th Jan.,...
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Notes of the Quarter
THE disaster at Seaham Harbour, in which 5 members of the life-boat crew and 4 people who had been taken off a fishing boat by the life-boat all lost their lives, shocked and distressed the nation.
The life-boat capsized at...
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The Fishwives of Cullercoats
THE fishwives of Cullercoats have beaten their previous record by col- lecting £203 11s. lOd. at the quarterly road exercise and launch of the life- boat. Their previous highest total was £199 in 1931. This was their thirteenth...
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The Launch of the Life-Boat
Go forth, thou gallant boat! God speed thee on the main I Not oft, if ever, wilt thou float Thus tranquilly again.
Go I proudly ride the wave— The restless waters sleep; Hereafter thou must breast and brave The fury of the...
Category: Poetry
Notes of the Quarter
THE first quarter of 1963 was a period in which a number of important advances were made in the develop- ment of life-boat design and in the task, which is a continuous one, of modernizing and re-equipping the life- boat service as a whole....
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Notes of the Quarter
AT a press conference held in London on 24th October, Commander F. R. H. Swann, O.B.E., R.N.V.R., Chairman of the R.N.L.I., announced a colourful programme of events to celebrate in 1974 the 150th anniversary of the foundation of the R.N.L.I...
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