LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Presentation By Rear- Admiral Sir Edmund Irving a Vice-President of the Institution to Littlestoneon- Seu Ilb Crew of a Telescope Paid for By the Romney Marsh Ladies'
Presentation by Rear- Admiral Sir Edmund Irving, a vice-president of the Institution, to Littlestoneon- Seu ILB crew of a telescope paid for by the Romney Marsh ladies' darts league (see right). The league cup for 1977/78 was won by the... - View image in PDF
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Feature a Hazardous Industry
Although fishing vessels only make up some 14 per cent of RNLI call outs, more fishermen die at sea than any other group of sea user. It is widely recognised that fishing is the most dangerous industry in the worldIt was in 1994 that the...
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Vineta
Lifeboatman overboard during long service to stricken coaster Members of the Scarborough lifeboat crew hauled their own Second Coxswain, John Trotter, to safety aboard their new Mersey class lifeboat Fanny Victoria Wilkinson and Frank Stubbs...
Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
THE following is a copy of a Circular which has been addressed by the Royal National Life-boat Institution to the local Committees of its several Life-boat Branches on the coasts of the United Kingdom. The Circular explains at length the...
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June (1)
CAMPBELTOWN, ARGYLLSHIRE. While returning to Carradale at 10.30 in the morning of the 1st of May, 1943, after discharging herrings at Campbeltown, the crew of the fishing boat Amy Harris were passed in Campbeltown Loch by a flying boat...
Category: Services
Douglas Isle of Man—Birthplace of the Rnli By Joan Davies
JUST AS at a time of family celebration, wherever its members may be, their thoughts will turn to home, so in the spring of 1974 the thoughts of the RNLI and its friends must inevitably turn to Douglas; the little seaport on the Isle of Man...
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Index to the Branches
ABBRDEHS- . . . .221 ABBRDOVEY . . . .197 ABKBSOCH .... 166 ACOCK'S GrREKH . . 213 AX.DEBURGH . . . .207 INDEX TO THE BRANCHES.
CfiOMER *ISS LEEK 206 RAMSGATE...
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Macduff - Atlantic 21 the Rotary Club of Glasgow
Macduff's new Atlantic 21 class lifeboat is put through her paces. - View image in PDF
(Photo Andrew G. Taylor). - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
BRIDLINGTON QUAY, YORKSHIRE. —On 3rd January the Life-boat George and Jane Walker was called out to the assistance of two sailing vessels which had been towed into the bay and left at anchor. During the night the wind changed into the E.S.E....
Category: Services
Night Distress Signals
' For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle ?" UNTIL the year 1873, vast as were the interests at stake, there was no recognised system of night signals to be shown by vessels in distress...
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