LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Twenty-One West Sussex Businessmen Took Part In a Sponsored Cycle Ride from Littlehampton to Rustington and Back In October In Aid of the RNLI the Only Unusual T
Twenty-one West Sussex businessmen took part in a sponsored cycle ride from Littlehampton to Rustington and back in October, in aid of the R.N.L.I. The only unusual thing was that all were on one cycle, said to be the largest in the world,... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ned' the Barge Horse and Mr E Wrangles Who Was Sponsored By 140 People for £137 Were Two of the Participants In the Hertford Walk In Aid of the RNLI Along The
'Ned', the barge horse, and Mr. E. Wrangles, who was sponsored by 140 people for £137, were two of the participants in the Hertford walk in aid of the R.N.L.I, along the towpath of the River Lee from Hertford to Dobbs Weir last... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Below) Port St.Mary's 54Ft Arun the Gough Ritchie and Port Erin's 37Ft 6In Rather Osman Gabriel Together With Port St.Mary's D- Class Ilb and Boarding Boat Man Ship Ready to Cheer King Olaf
(Below) Port St Mary's 54ft Arun The Gough Ritchie and Port Erin's 37ft 6in Rather Osman Gabriel, together with Port St Mary's D- class ILB and boarding boat, man ship ready to cheer King Olaf.
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Category: Photographs
An Airliner (1)
Fenit, Co. Kerry, and Galway Bay, Co.
Galway.—In the early morning of the 15th of August, 1949, an air liner from Rome, calling at Shannon Airport on its way to America, made a forced landing on the sea west of Kilkee in...
Loss of Life from Shipwreck on Our Coasts
CIRCUMSTANCES seem to combine in an extraordinary way for spreading very erroneous impressions as to the actual loss of life from shipwreck on the coasts of the United Kingdom. We constantly see in the papers "]ast week's...
Category: Articles
The Late Storm
M. MARIE-DAVY, who is intrusted with the Meteorological Department at the Observatory, Paris, has communicated a Paper to the Academy of Sciences on the great storm of the 2nd and 3rd of December. He confirms the statement that it was owing...
Category: Articles
A Vessel
This Life-boat was also afloat all the night of the 25th November, in conse- quence of distress signals being exhibited from the lightship, from which it was subsequently ascertained that the vessel which had required aid had got off the...
News and Views
Deputy PM takes to the lifeboats! Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott took to the water in the Dover lifeboat recently when he presented the RNLI with a Millennium Product plaque for the Severn class all-weather boat.
The...
Category: Articles
BRINGING 200 TONNES OF TRAWLER HOME
Kieran had to work fast. In high winds, a trawler’s heaving line had got tangled around the lifeboat’s searchlight and radar. Someone had to climb up and cut it loose or the next big swell could bring the gear down …
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Category: Articles
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RSPCA Bronze medal for lifeboatmen Nine crew members of West Kirby's D class inflatable lifeboat, the deputy launching authority and the station honorary secretary have been awarded the RSPCA's Bronze medal for rescuing two horses...