LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Fishing Coble Jean and Barbara
OCTOBER 24TH. - FILEY, YORKSHIRE.
At 9.15 in the morning, the coastguard reported that the local motor fishing coble Jean and Barbara was at sea and anxiety was felt for her. A south-south-east gale was blowing, increasing...
The Liberian Motor Vessel National Fighter
Lowestoft, Suffolk. At 7.32 on the morning of the 7th of December, 1959,the coastguard informed the honorary secretary that distress rockets had been fired by the Liberian motor vessel National Fighter three miles south-east of Lowestoft....
Lady Maud Carnegie Naming the Boat
Left to right: Lord Provost Lewis, Lord Carnegie, Lady Maud Carnegie, Sir Godfrey Baring, Commander Drury. On the exteme right: the Duke of Montrose.. - View image in PDF
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The Painting Presented to John Dare
The painting presented to John Dare on his retirement as coxswain after 31 years service depicts the Arun City of Plymouth during a service to a yacht at Wembury Rocks.. - View image in PDF
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The Southwold Life-Boats, 1840-1916. By Ernest R. Cooper, Hon Secretary
I REGRET that for many of the earlier years the Southwold Records are but scanty, and it is with some difficulty that I have been able to extract the facts now detailed from such books and documents as have come down to me.
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While Trying to Help the Yachtsmen
While trying to help the yachtsmen the inflatable dinghy was capsized. The two lifeboatmen who had been manning her and one of Melfort's crew, swept down to Derby Haven breakwater, were successfully lifted from the sea by the crew of the... - View image in PDF
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The Replica 12th Century Long Boat Aileach
Longboat's steering fails 40 miles north of Cape WrathSome of the latest technology came to the aid of some of the earliest when Stromness lifeboat station's relief Arun class Newsbuoy was launched to the aid of a replica 12th...
The Life-Boat Stamp Bureau
THE Life-boat Stamp Bureau, which was founded by Miss Margaret Power, of Mount Royal, Old Common, Cobham, Surrey, in 1933, is continuing and ex- tending its work. Miss Power has now a number of regular customers who want only first-class...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
PRESERVATION OF LITE PROM SHIPWRECK.
Ob«Me.—Bust of Her Majesty Queen Victoria; beneath, in minute letters, "L. C.Wyon." Double legend, " Royal National Life-boat Institution. Founded in...
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The Medal of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
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Category: Medals