LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
At the Festival of Britain: 1951
The Sir Godfrey Baring, a 46-feet 9-inches Watson motor life-boat with two 40 h.p. engines and a deck cabin (See page 277). - View image in PDF
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Retirement
Commander S. H. Pinchin, O.B.E., D.S.C., R.N.(RETD.), the present Deputy Chief Inspector, H.M. Coastguard, will retire on 3ist March, 1966. He will be succeeded by Lt.-Commander J. A. Douglas, M.B.E., R.N.(RETD.).
Commander...
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The Barges Asphodel and Kitty
Southend-on-Sea, Essex.—At 9.10 in the morning of the 1st of March, 1949, the look-out at Warden Point reported that a barge was making signals of distress three miles east-north-east of the point. The motor life-boat Greater London, Civil...
After 22 Years' Service. The Old Plymouth Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat
After 22 Years' Service The Old Plymouth Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat. - View image in PDF
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The Viscount and Viscountess Wakefield With Their Life-Boat at Hythe
The Viscount and Viscountess Wakefield With Their Life-Boat at Hythe. - View image in PDF
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Hauling the Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Along the Shore Preparatory to Launching
Hauling The Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat Along The Shore Preparatory To Launching. - View image in PDF
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"The Merchant Shipping Bill of 1869."
In the year 1854 the various Acts of Parliament relating to Merchant Ship- ping and Navigation which, from time to time from the reign of Queen Elizabeth, had been enacted, were, for the most part, repealed and consolidated in a new Act...
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Coventry Junior and Infant Schools
Edward Mockett, Coventry branch honorary secretary, receives a collecting box back from pupils of one of the 21 Coventry junior and infant schools which between them collected £160 for the RNLI.
photograph by courtesy... - View image in PDF
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Esther Ann
On the following night, while the schooner Esther Ann, of Belfast, bound from Dublin for Wexford with a cargo of wheat, was attempting to beat up Dublin river during rough threatening weather, her top-sail split as she was passing the North...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution—(continued.)
RYE, SUSSEX. — At daybreak on the 24th October, 1872, the Urgent, a barge, becoming unnavigable when off Jury's Gap, hoisted signals of distress, and commenced firing minute guns. It was blowing hard from the S.S.W., and a heavy sea was...
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