LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The French Crabber Pluie de Rose
Penlee, Cornwall. At 6.12 on the morning of the 1st of April, 1959, the coastguard informed the honorary secre- tary that a vessel was ashore in St. Loy Bay. At 6.34 the life-boat W and S was launched in a slight sea, with a gentle...
The Life-Boats In 1944
In 1944 life-boats rescued 714 lives and helped to save 50 boats, ships and aeroplanes from destruction. There were 455 launches of life-boats to the rescue and 178, or well over a third, were to aeroplanes..
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Lemons and the Life-Boats.
The Institution has received £5 4s. from two lemons. One was raffled in Birmingham. The other was handed round at a dance in Cheam, to be smelt at a penny a head, and was then auctioned..
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The Life-Boat Station at Porto De Leixoes, on the Coast North of the River Douro, Portugal
The Life-Boat Station at Porto De Leixoes on the Coast North of the River Douro Portugal. - View image in PDF
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A Sunday Exercise During the Passage Involves the Mersey Taking Salcombe's Tyne Class the Baltic Exchange Ii In Tow
A Sunday exercise during the passage involves the Mersey taking Salcombe's Tyne class. The Baltic Exchange II. in tow. - View image in PDF
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The Assembled Lifeboats Steam In Line Astern Up the Oslofjord Framed By the Rigging of Christian Radich Carrying Conference Delegates
The assembled lifeboats steam in line astern up the Oslofjord, framed by the rigging of Christian Radich carrying conference delegates.. - View image in PDF
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Douglas Lifeboat's Inflatable X Boat Waits at the Foot of the Cliff for the Second Youth to Be Lowered
Douglas lifeboat's inflatable X boat waits at the foot of the cliff for the second youth to be lowered. - View image in PDF
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Pictured at Bottom: the Enniskillen Crew and the Atlantic 21 Lifeboat Bienwatch on the Enniskillen Inland Waterways
Pictured at bottom: The Enniskillen crew and the Atlantic 21 lifeboat Bienwatch on the Enniskillen inland waterways Photo: Colin Watson. - View image in PDF
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The British Whale-Factory Ship Balaena
WHALE FACTORY SHIP AGROUND Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.— At 10.26 on the night of the 14th of May, 1947, the coastguard telephoned a report from the Newarp Light-vessel that a vessel was aground on Winterton Bridge, three miles...
The Finnish Four-Masted Barque Herzogin Cecilie
Sal combe, Devon. — Early on the morning of the 25th April the Finnish four-masted barque Herzogin Cecilie, of Mariehamn, bound from Australia to Falmouth and Ipswich with a cargo of grain, ran ashore in a thick fog between Sewer Mill Cove...