LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
SAVING LIVES AT SEA IS A BIG HIT
Did you see Saving Lives at Sea?
The Summer BBC documentary was a big hit with viewers, drawing 3M in its first episode. For the first time ever, film crews were given an access-all-areas pass to the RNLI's stations, lifeboats...
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The Coningbeg Lightship
APRIL 8TH. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
At 8.20 P.M. a telephone request was received for the services of the life-boat to take off a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightship. The message had been transmitted to Rosslare by the S.S...
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
Founded in 1824.—Supported by Voluntary Subscriptions.
PATRONESS—HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE QUEEN.
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The Coningbeg Lightship
MARCH 23RD. - KILMORE, CO. WEXFORD.
A telegram was received at 5.30 in the afternoon asking that the life-boat might be used to bring off a sick man from the Coningbeg Lightship. The weather was too bad for an ordinary...
(Left) the One-Twelfth Scale Model of Mumbles Lifeboat and Boathouse
(left) The one-twelfth scale model of Mumbles lifeboat and boathouse during the filming of 'Dangerous Coast'. - View image in PDF
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Fig 4: (Below) Web Frames Stringers Engine Bearers and Keelson Are All Now In Place the Shape of the Propeller Tunnels Aft Is Already Emerging
Fig 4: (below) Web frames, stringers, engine bearers and keelson are all now in place. The shape of the propeller tunnels, aft, is already emerging.. - View image in PDF
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Velocity of Sunderland
On the 2nd April, at daylight, a vessel, which afterwards proved to be the brig Velocity, of Sunderland, was perceived to be ashore on Sizewell Bank, the wind blow- ing hard from S.S.W. at the time. The Thorpe life-boat was quickly launched...
The Lord and Lady Provost of Glasgow Dr and Mrs Gray Aboard City of Glasgow III
The Lord and Lady Provost of Glasgow, Dr and Mrs Gray, aboard City of Glasgow III. Behind them, (second I) is Coxswain Ian Johnson and in the background (centre) and (far r) are RNLI director. Lt Cdr Brian Miles and chairman. The Duke of... - View image in PDF
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The Ketch Sualidaz Under Tow By the New Fab 3 Prototype Off Portland Bill the Service Was the First Carried Out By the New Boat Which Was on Familiarisation Trials
The ketch Sualidaz under tow by the new FAB 3 prototype off Portland Bill. The service was the first carried out by the new boat, which was on familiarisation trials at the time. - View image in PDF
(Photo Stuart Welford). - View image in PDF
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Charity from the Workless
THE sum of £250,000 which the Institution needs each year to maintain the life-boat service works out at five farthings per head of the population of the British Isles. In a number of its appeals the Institution has been asking for this...
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