LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Motor Drifter Curlew
At 11.30 A.M. on the 24th Novem- ber the reserve motor life-boat City of Bradford I (on temporary duty at this station), which had already been out earlier in the day to search for a vessel reported ashore, see page 414), put out again, as...
"Storm on the Waters"
Storm on the Waters - is the story of the Life-boat Service in the war of 1939-45. The full story cannot be told in the compass of a small book, but if Mr. Vince has had to omit much that we should like to see included, he has given us a...
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Portrait on the Cover
THE portrait on the cover is of Coxswain Herbert Jones, of Hoylake, Cheshire. After serving for ten months as second coxswain of the neighbouring station of Hilbre Island, Coxswain Jones became second coxswain at Hoylake in 1920. He served...
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The Queen: Patron of the Institution
HER MAJESTY THE QUEEN has been graciously pleased to give her patron- age to the Institution. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, who has been a patron since 1937, and Her Majesty Queen Mary, who has been a patron since 1911,...
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On the rocks
The 17m fishing vessel Crystal Sea was returning to harbour with a catch at 3am on 22 November when she hit rocks north of Howth Head.
As she sank, her crew of four jumped onto the rocks, where they activated their...
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The Gorton Lightvessel
DOCTOR TO LIGHTVESSEL Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk. At 1.55 p.m. on 3ist January, 1965, the superintendent of Trinity House asked the honorary secretary for the use of the life-boat to take a sick man off of the Gorton Lightvessel....
Suffolk Firm Building Faster Boats for the Rnli
When in the mid-1960s the RNLI decided to have six fast steel lifeboats to a 44-foot design developed by the United States Coast Guard, the Lowestoft shipyard was chosen to build them—and two of the six went to East Anglian stations, the...
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1883
RESOLUTIONS PASSED AT THE ANNUAL MEETING FOE 1883.
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, P.O., D.C.L., IN the CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :—1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the...
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Into the Next Century
The RNLI continues to develop lifesaving equipment of all kinds, to meet new demands as new techniques and materials become available. Tust as with the Severn and Trent class lifeboats often no commercial product suits the exacting needs of...
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The Whaler Paul
Dover, Kent.—On the afternoon of the 16th of September, 1952, the whaler Paul, of Dover, with three boys from Dover College on board, was blown out of the western entrance to Dover harbour. At 3.45 the life-boat Southern Africa left her...