LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Duke of Northumberland's Prize Life-Boat Essay Competition
THE subject chosen for the seventh Life-boat Essay Competition was " How does the Life-boat Service Help the Cause of Peace between. Nations " A number of schools have written that they have found the subject rather too difficult...
Category: Articles
Inspired By Winter Gales and Accounts of Shipwrecks at Sea the Children of Whittington Oval Junior School Stechford Birmingham Decided to Help the Rnli and Collected
Inspired by winter gales and accounts of shipwrecks at sea, the children of Whittington Oval Junior School, Stechford, Birmingham, decided to help the RNLI and collected £281 entirely on their own initiative. Ideas included sponsored... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Right) South Africa: Hubert Davies One of the National Sea Rescue Institute's 10M Lifeboats In Table Bay
(Right) South Africa: Hubert Davies, one of the National Sea Rescue Institute's 10m lifeboats, in Table Bay.. - View image in PDF
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The Rnli In Ireland By Lieut-Colonel Brian Clark Mc Gm
During the past year Irish lifeboatmen have served with courage and honour. Among other services the Kilmore Quay lifeboat crew experienced the first capsizes of a modern lifeboat; they and the whole station acquitted themselves with...
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Stephen Whittle Coxswain of Dunmore East Lifeboat By Ray Kipling
DUNMORE EAST is a fishing port at the mouth of Waterford Harbour in southeastern Ireland, just off the busy shipping lanes leading from the Atlantic Ocean up St George's Channel and into the Irish Sea. The shore sweeps down to Hook Head...
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A turn for the worse
Three anglers were about a mile out to sea in a 5m pleasureboat in Hartlepool Bay on Sunday 21 September. With their fishing rods poised for a bite, they were hoping for a good catch.
But their mood changed when the wind...
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The H.M.S Squirell
—• At 5.30 P.M.
on the 24th May information was received by telephone from the Chief Officer of Coastguard at Par that a man in an open boat was in difficulties, and driving fast out to sea, about nine miles from Polkerris....
Gallantry In Galway Bay. Award of Seven Bronze Medals
ON the night of August 16th, 1938, the steam trawler Nogi, of London, went ashore about 300 yards N.W. of the lighthouse on Straw Island, which lies off Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands in Galway Bay, on the west coast of Ireland. A strong...
Category: Services
The Whitby No. 2 Pulling and Sailing Life-Boat on the Flooded Road Below Ruswarp Vicarage on Her Way to the Rescue of Two Women About Half a Mile Upstream
The Whitby No 2 Pulling And'sailing Life-Boat on the Flooded Road Below Ruswarp Vicarage On Her Way To The Rescue of Two Women About Half A Mile Upstream. - View image in PDF
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Mr. Smith's Club, Brazil Street, Manchester, Held a Life-Boat Evening Recently and These Girls(Above), Helped to Make the Occasion a Memorable One. Proceeds Were Given to the R.N.L.I. on the Ri
Mr. Smith's Club, Brazil Street, Manchester, held a life-boat evening recently and these girls(above), helped to make the occasion a memorable one. Proceeds were given to the R.N.L.I. On the right is Mrs. Ruth Manrot who was selected as... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs