LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Additional Rocket Stations
We learn from the 15th Annual Report of the Rocket Stations on the Coast of Yorkshire and elsewhere, just issued by Mr. CARTE, Ordnance Storekeeper at Hull, that during the past year two new rocket stations have been established at Portland...
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Merc Texco
Hurricane launch NEWS THAT MV Merc Texco had a badly injured man to be landed led to the launching of the Dungeness lifeboat, Mabel E. Holland, a 42' Watson beach class, at 1658 on February 11.
The wind was south south...
Naming Ceremony at North Sunderland
THE Duchess of Northumberland, C.B.E., a vice-patron of the Ladies' Life-boat Guild and president of the Alnwick Guild, named a new motor life-boat at North Sunderland on 5th September. The boat is of the 35 feet 6 inches light Liverpool...
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A Potted Drama of the Sea
FOR some time past the Morning Post has published in its " Personal" adver- tisement ' column what it calls " Peter Piper's Potted Plots," three prizes of one pound each being given, each day for the best potted...
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Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 Class Lord Bortherton Photo Courtesy of Jeff Morris
Staithes and Runswick Atlantic 21 Class Lord Bortherton Photo Courtesy of Jeff Morris. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Eastbourne Lifeboat Duke at Kent Beaches Ready for Recovery After Her Service to the Blazing Ammunition Ship Breydon Merchant on 24 February
The Eastbourne lifeboat Duke at Kent beaches ready for recovery after her service to the blazing ammunition ship Breydon Merchant on 24 February. - View image in PDF
(Photo Paul Russell). - View image in PDF
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The East German M.V. Saale (1)
Eastbourne, Newhaven, Shoreham Harbour and Selsey, Sussex - At 9.45 p.m. on 7th January, 1967, a message was received that the East German m.v.
Saale, which was on fire, required assistance.
The life-boat...
(Above) Staithes Lifeboat Station Renamed Staithes and Runswick Was Re-Opened When An Atlantic 21 Ilb Named Lord Brotherton After a Former Lord Mayor of Leeds
(Above) Staithes lifeboat station, renamed Staithes and Runswick, was re-opened when an Atlantic 21 ILB named Lord Brotherton after a former Lord Mayor of Leeds was dedicated by the Reverend R. W.
Barnacle on June 17. The... - View image in PDF
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For the Third Year In Succession Newport Branch
Fonthe third year in succession Newport branch, Gwent, has raised tl ,000 at its annual cocktail party held in the Missions to Seamen on Newport Docks. At the tombola drum, Councillor Roy Morris, Mayor of Newport and president of the branch,... - View image in PDF
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Branch Knees-Up
Cwmbran branch and Parsley Hay country dance band recently organised a ceilidh at Cwmbran Rugby Club in aid of the RNLI. You can see from the above photograph that the band fully entered into the spirit of the occasion - but this comes as no... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs