LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The jammy Geordie
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During a Visit to the Shipyard of Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, the Duke of Edinburgh Inspected Two of the R.N.L.I.'s 44-Foot Steel Life-Boats Which Were Then Nearing Completion
During a visit to the shipyard of Brooke Marine Ltd., Lowestoft, the Duke of Edinburgh inspected two of the R.N.L.I.'s 44-foot steel life-boats which were then Hearing completion. Pictured with the Duke is Mr. Harry L. Dowsett (right),... - View image in PDF
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Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (Tkefgures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 330-341.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 166 Drogheda, Ireland, 264. Lizard, Cornwall, 127. Robin Hood's Bay, Yorks, 31....
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The Maryport Life-Boat and Her Crew
The Priscilla Macbean, a 35-ft. self-righting life-boat, with a 15 h.p. engine. This boat, which rescued the crew of the Plauisworth, has now been replaced by a 35-ft. 6-in. Liverpool life-boat, with a 35 h.p. engine. The new boat was named... - View image in PDF
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H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, K.G. (1)
Left to right: Mr. Ernest Brown, Minister of Labour, H.R.H. The Duke of Kent, Coxswain H. A. Griggs (Hythe), Mr. F C. Sanders (bowman at Torbay), Coxswain William Mogridge (Torbay).. - View image in PDF
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The Author Richard Mann In the Museum at Rnli Hq West Quay Road Poole As the Institution's Display Manager It Is Part of His Work to Care for the Institution's Museums and to Support The
The author, Richard Mann, in the museum at RNL1 HQ, West Quay Road. Poole. As the Institution's display manager it is part of his work to care for the Institution's museums and to support the volunteer curators who run... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Fulham II
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 6.45 in the evening of the 10th of December, 1948, the police telephoned that North Foreland radio station had reported the s.s. Fulham II, of London, one mile north-east of Britannia Pier, with a...
The S.S.Pandora and the S.S. Gripfast
Tessmouth, Whitby, and Runswick, Yorkshire. — In the morning of the 22nd of October, 1951, the S.S.Pandora, of Beaumaris, foundered in a gale and a very heavy sea one and a half miles off Runswick, with the loss of her crew of six. The...
The S.S. Riso
About 9.40 P.M. on the 4th February during a ' strong westerly gale intimation was re- j ceived that s.s. Bt'so, of Haugesund, had run on to " Longcraig" rocks about seven miles to the east of Dunbar. The crew of the...