LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Left: the Pier Was a Treacherous Place for the Lifeboat Crew to Venture
Left: The Pier Was A Treacherous Place For The Lifeboat Crew To Venture. - View image in PDF
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Reserve Fleets of Life-Boats
IN order to be ready for any emergency on the coast the Institution keeps at its Storeyard at Poplar, on the Thames, a Eeserve Fleet of Life-boats. One of these Boats can be sent at a moment's notice to any place on the coast where the...
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Olden Times
Eyemouth, Berwickshire. — At 4.15 in the afternoon of the 27th of Decem- ber, 1951, the fishing vessel Dougals, which was in the harbour, reported by wireless that she had picked up a message from the steam trawler Olden Times, of North...
Boy Philip and Bessie Jane
ST. IVES, CORNWALL. — On the 17th November, while a strong gale was blowing from the N.W. and a heavy sea was running, the Life-boat temporarily placed heie during the absence of the station's boat which was being altered and improved,...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
NORTH SUNDERLAND.—The schooner St. Fergus, of Wick, bound from the Tyne for Inverness, with cement, in trying to pass through the Fairway, between the land and the Fame Islands, during a strong W.N.W. gale on the 17th March, 1885, broke her...
Category: Services
Surfboards
An 11-year-old girl and her father were surfing on holiday in North Cornwall when the high tide swept them away. It was early evening on 10 August when a horrified mother watched her daughter and husband drifting further and further away...
List of the Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution During the Year 1891
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Balloons Being Launched During the Large Scale R.N.L.I, Competition at the End of Last Year.
Compiled by Grahame Farr with the help of members of the Life-boat Enthusiasts' Society 1—Which life-boat station is farthest from the shore? 2—Where are old life-boat houses now used as (a) a library, and (b] an aquarium? 3—Which... - View image in PDF
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White Heather
At about 8.35 P.M. on the 8th June, a telephone message was received from the coast- guard at St. Agnes that a small boat appeared to be in difficulties off St.
Agnes, and unable to make harbour.
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Weston-Super-Mare-D Class
Weston-Super-Mare's new D class lifeboat is dedicated at a ceremony held at the station on 14 October 1989. The boat was largely funded from the proceeds of a Boto-X organised by the Kennet and Avon Canal Trust.
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