LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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We ask the questions RNLI Lifeboat stations throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland throw open their doors to the public this summer. Visitors will be able to speak to the crews, see the lifeboats and get a taste of the unique atmosphere...
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Past and Present
75 years ago From The Life-Boat of September 1919 in the somewhat flowery prose of the time the September 1919 issue of 'The Life-Boat' paid a tribute to a fictitious retiring lifeboatman under the heading 'The Old Coxswain'....
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A Motor Boat (1)
Wick, Caithness-shire, and Longhope, Orkney.—21st June, 1938. A motor boat bound from Wick to Longhope was long overdue, but a search was without result. Later it was learned that the boat had taken shelter in a cove.—Rewards: Wick, £10...
A Boat (1)
Margate, Kent - At 9.2 p.m. on ist May, 1966, the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that flashes had been reported by the police to be coming from a small boat near the south east Margate buoy and requested that the life-boat stand...
A Shoreline Display
A Shoreline display has been designed for Tenby lifeboathou.se by Claude A. Page of Pumpsaint, near Llandeilo, the brother-inlaw of Eric Bancroft, the station honorary secretary. With this encouragement, and a good supply of Shoreline... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
A Steam Drifter
AUG. 29TH. - GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. Guns had been heard in a fog, but the life-boat could find nothing. It was learnt later that a steam drifter had been sunk in a collision, but thecrew had been rescued by another vessel.-...
A Steamer (22)
JULY 15TH. - HOLYHEAD, ANGLESEY.
A steamer was reported to have been bombed and sunk by enemy aeroplanes, but the lifeboat found nothing except a patch of oil.
Another vessel picked up an injured man in a...
A Small Boat
MARCH 31ST. - MARGATE, KENT. A boy in a small boat had drifted out to sea. but he was picked up by a fishing boat from Whitstable. - Rewards. £16 17s. 6d. (See Whitstable “Services by Shore-boats,” page 57.).
A Small Motor Boat
St. Helier, Jersey.—28th August, 1938.
A small motor boat had been reported missing. The life-boat, with the honorary secretary, Lieut.-Commander T. le B. Pirouet, on board, searched all night, and then put into Gorey,...
British and Foreign Rewards for Saving Life
ON the 6th of December last, the E. Z., of New York, fell in with the British vessel John Garrow, when in the act of sinking.
The master, his wife, child, and twenty-six members of the crew, were safely taken off at great...
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