LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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MARCH 27TH. - AMBLE, NORTH-UMBERLAND. At midnight on the 26th March the coxswain was asked by the naval officer commanding the Tyne area to take a sealed message to Coquet Island, and the motor life-boat Elizabefh Newton, on temporary duty...
The Life-Boat Saturday Fund
A further substantial increase in the receipts and a further satisfactory decrease in the working expenses! This is the highly gratifying report supplied by the Central Committee of the Life-boat Saturday Fund as the result of their labours...
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June
Launches 29. Lives rescued 9.
JUNE 3RD. - NEW BRIGHTON , CHESHIRE. At 9.30 A.M. the coxswain was informed that the fishing boat Speedwell, of New Brighton, had broken from her moorings and gone aground between the Perch...
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Wild is the wind
The wind brings us clear blue skies and storms, makes a sailboat sail and chills us to the bone. But have you ever wondered where it comes from? Here the Lifeboat gives you a beginner’s guide to wind and its extreme effects<...
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Galway Bay. At i p.m. on 24th October, 1965, the local doctor asked for the use of the life-boat to take a boy with a broken arm to the mainland for hospital treatment. No other suitable boat was available. The life-boat Mary Stanford, on...
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Essay Competition for Elementary Schools
IN order to encourage in children a knowledge of and a pride in the work of British Life-boatmen, the Committee of Management have decided to ask for the co-operation of the Headmasters and Headmistresses of Elementary Schools throughout the...
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CLIFF FACE
ACHILL ISLAND | 5 JANUARY
Volunteers from Achill Island launched their all-weather lifeboat when two hill walkers got stuck 60m up a steep cliff face near Mweelrea Mountain, Co Mayo. Low visibility prevented the Coast Guard...
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People and Places
Happy Christinas The American, Mr J. P. Young, is popular man among RNLI lifeboat crews. Every year he selects a different part of the coast for his generous gift of whisky to lifeboatmen. It is his way of showing admiration for the work...
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The Walmer Life-Boat
HARK ! a distant gun is sounding .
O'er the waters, wildly bounding; Raging waves are fast surrounding Some wrecked ship to-night On the shore the breakers, roaring, Loud as thunder now are pouring; Far a signal high...
Category: Poetry