LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
United States Life-Saving Service
AT the close of the fiscal year ended the 30th June, 1901, the Life-saving Estab- lishment of the United States embraced 270 stations, an increase of 1 as com- pared with the previous year. Of this total (270) 195 were situated on the...
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Tenby Lifeboat House from Page 47
from page 47 parts of the old rotten timber beams was then begun.
Access bridge At the same time the old access bridge was removed, so that for a short time Tenby lifeboat house became an island. The new access bridge spans...
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Some of the 16 Rescued Seamen Shake the Hand of Coxswain Brian Bevan
Some of the 16 rescued seamen shake the hand of Coxswain Brian Bevan as they go ashore from the Humber lifeboat Kenneth The/wall. They had been taken off the blazing tanker Phillips Oklahoma in what Coxswain Bevan described as 'the worst... - View image in PDF
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I Doubt Whether There Exists In This Country a Finer Collection of Men and Women Nor a Better Living Example of the Spirit of Voluntary Service Throughout the World'
From a painting by Michael Turner which appeared with Paul Pickering's and Donald McLachlan's article 'For Those In Peril On the Sea' in Reader's Digest for February, 1972. The incident occurred in 1966 when the Holyhead... - View image in PDF
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The End of the Beginning
On 30 November 1993 the Mersey class lifeboat Freddie Cooperarrived at Aldeburgh to mark the beginning of a new era - an era in which there are fast lifeboats at every one of the RNLI's stations.
It was also...
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Brothers Gem
At about 11 P.M. on the 27th May the large fishing-boat Brothers Gem stranded on the rocks about half a mile to the N.E.
of Arbroath Harbour, and cries for help could be heard from the vessel.
The fog was...
As London Life-Boat Day Went Ahead on 18Th March 1969 the Search for the Missing Longhope Life-Boat Was Announced on Newspaper Placards All Over London
As London Life-boat Day went ahead on 18th March, 1969, the search for the missing Longhope life-boat was announced on newspaper placards all over London.. - View image in PDF
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Weymoulh: the Quay Was Crowded for the Naming of the 54' Arun Class Lifeboat Tony Vandervell Photograph By Courtesy of Hms Osprey
Weymoulh: The quay was crowded for the naming of the 54' Arun class lifeboat Tony Vandervell . . . photograph by courtesy of HMS Osprey. - View image in PDF
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Young People Thought Up All Sorts of Energetic Ideas a Weird and Wonderful Fleet of London Rotaract Clubs' Rafts Make for the Starting Line
Young people thought up all sorts of energetic ideas . . . a weird and wonderful fleet of London Rotaract Clubs' rafts make for the starting line.. - View image in PDF
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Shielding Themselves from the Cold and Wet Determined and Enthusiastic Rnli Supporters Assemble for the Naming Ceremony of the Lady of Hilbre By Hrh the Duke
Shielding themselves from the cold and wet, determined and enthusiastic RNLI supporters assemble for the naming ceremony of the Lady of Hilbre by HRH The Duke of Kent. Photo Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
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