LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
MORE LIFEGUARDED BEACHES THAN EVER
If you’re heading to the seaside in the UK or Channel Islands this Summer, the chances are there’s a beach patrolled by RNLI lifeguards near you. This year our lifeguards will be on hand at more beaches than ever – they now patrol 238. ...
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen
ON the closing of the Burnham Life-boat Station the following awards were made :— To FREDERICK J. KING, who served for 5 1/2 years as Coxswain, 4 1/2 years as Bowman, and previously 30 years as a member of the Crew, a Coxswain's...
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Darling facts
Grace Horsley Darling was born on 24 November 1815 in her grandparents’ cottage in Bamburgh. She was the seventh child of Thomasin and William Darling.
William was Lighthouse Keeper on Brownsman Island. Grace and her eight...
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Foreign Life-Boat Services. II
The United States (State Service.
Established 1848).
Since the publication of our extensive note on this Service in the November issue of The Lifeboat we have received the Annual Report of the U.S....
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Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THE RNLI'S ASSOCIATION with the Queen's Jubilee and with activities of the Royal Family during the Jubilee summer were widespread and colourful. On July 14 the Queen named the new Hartlepool lifeboat The Scout. This was the first...
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Prize Winning Essay
A competition open to secondary schoolboys and schoolgirls under the age of sixteen for an essay on the subject of the Life-boat Service was held again last year.
The subject set was: "Why does our country need a...
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County of Cork
MOELFEE, ANGLESEA.—About 10 o'clock on the morning of the 2nd March, while a strong breeze was blowing from S.E. accompanied by a rough sea, signals of distress were shown by the schooner County of Cork, of Amlwch, bound from Liverpool...
Rito (1)
Submerged object struck HM COASTGUARD informed the honorary secretary of Filey lifeboat station at 2048 on Tuesday December 20, 1983, that the coaster Rito was in difficulty three miles north east of Filey Brigg.
Water was...