LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
No Small Tempest Lay on Us
AT a life-boat service held at Lande- wednack Parish Church, and attended by the crews of the Lizard, Cadgwith and Coverack life-boats, on 22nd August, 1954, a diocesan lay reader took as his text Acts 27 verse 20: And when neither sun nor...
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Jubilee Fix It!
Jubilee Fix it! Last year was an important year for the Scarborough Ladies' lifeboat guild as they celebrated their Diamond Jubilee. The spring bank holiday was packed with fund raising activities including a festival of flowers held at... - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Museum at Eastbourne
ON the 22nd March this year a life-boat museum was opened at Eastbourne.
The Institution has, at its head- quarters in London, a collection of life-boat pictures and models, and there have been at various times short...
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The Danish Coaster Lady Kamilla (2)
Storm search A PROLONGED SEARCH was made by Padstow, St Ives and Clovelly lifeboats in a south-westerly storm for the Danish coaster Lady Kamilla, which foundered off Trevose Head on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1977, and for her crew of nine...
The Four-Masted Vessel Hougomont
MARYPORT, CUMBERLAND.—The gale of the 27th February, which is described as a " perfect hurricane," drove the Hougomont, a large four-masted vessel of 2,000 tons, ashore at Allonby, -when bound from San Francisco to Liverpool with a...
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency
The Chief Inspector of Lifeboats, Lt.- Commander W. L. G. Dutton, RD, RNR, of Dorking, with his wife. Olive, when he received the OBE from the Queen on February 20. - View image in PDF
by courtesy of Feature Press Photo Agency. - View image in PDF
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Bookshelf
THE SPICE OF LIFE by 'Albert' Published by Harvey Press, 23/20 Royal Hospital, London SW34SRat£10(plus£1p&p) ISBN 09517513 01 'Albert' is one of the dedicated band of pensioners from the Royal Hospital, Chelsea...
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The Recent Gales
IN each succeeding Number of this Journal, it has been our painful duty to record the disasters which day by day have occurred to shipping; and our Wreck Register shows that, on an average of the whole year, about two wrecks a day take place...
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The Annual General Meeting
THE annual general meeting of the Governors of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution was held at the Central Hall, Westminster, on the 3rd of March, 1959. The Earl Howe, Chairman of the Committee of Management, was in the...
Category: Meetings
Rare Snap of the Cromer Lifeboat Picking Up a Solitary Bomber Survivor on January 29 1942
Ran- snap of I lie Cmmer lifeboat picking up a solitary bomber survivor on January 29, 1942.. - View image in PDF
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