LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Keeping History Preserved
Keeping history preserved I read the feature on the National lifeboat Collection at Chatham with great interest, unfortunately the collection does not include the 'jewel in the crown', the oldest existing lifeboat in the world - the... - View image in PDF
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Co-operative Funeralcare
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Contents
contents neWs including 10 new FOR DARTMOUTH saving lives on the river, beach and open sea 11 YOUTHFUL CRew SeT SAIL seafaring experience with a difference 1 LIFeGUARDS wORK weT SUMMeR norfolk’s first season 15 STAYInG In TOUCH membership...
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The Minesweeper Mastiff and Spartel
NOV. 2 0 T H . - MARGATE, KENT. At 10.45 A.M. the coastguard reported that a minesweeper was sinking, as a result of enemy action, a mile east of the Tongue Light-vessel. The minesweeper was the Mastiff. Five minutes later the motor...
Mars
DEC. 2 0TH. - BLYTH, AND TYNEMOUTH, NORTHUMBERLAND. At about 3 P.M. information was received through the coastguard that a steamer had been blown up about two miles south of Blyth. A light E.N.E. wind was blowing, with a slight sea.
High Seas
More bird's eye views of RNLI lifeboat stations.Aerofilms is offering copies of these photographs at well below normal rates - and donating 25% of the print price to the RNLI. Prices: Sin by Sin - £17.63, 10in by 10in -£27.03....
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Margaret, Boy Don and Alsace Lorraine
APRIL 24TH. - PENLEE, CORNWALL. At 6.30 A.M. the coastguard reported a fishing boat in distress S.W. of Penzer Point, and the motor life-boat W. and S. was launched at 6.50 A.M.
An E.S.E. gale was blowing, with a rough...
The Faroese Fishing Vessel Albert Victor, of Vaag
APRIL. 10TH. - ABERDEEN. The Faroese fishing vessel Albert Victor, of Vaag, with a cargo of fish, arrived off Aberdeen during the afternoon and was instructed to go to Hull.
A pilot went on board her, but her compass was...
Morning Star, of Dublin
The first Life-boat service rendered this year was that per- formed on the morning of the 1st January last, by the Life-boat Fair Maid of Perth, placed on this station a few months pre- viously ; and it was also the first occasion the boat...
The Life-Belt In Use By the Crews of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
The requisite qualities of a life-boatman's life-belt are— 1. Sufficient extra buoyancy to support a man heavily clothed, with his head and shoulders above the water, and to enable him to support another person besides...
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