LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Terrible Life-Boat Disaster at Kingstown
and mercifully disasters resulting in the loss of a whole Life-boat crew are very few and far between, but an accident of this character took place, alas! at Kingstown on Christmas Eve, and was the worst which had befallen the Service for...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SKEGNESS, LINCOLNSHIRE.—On the 6th January two members of the Life- boat's crew were out fishing in one of the small boats belonging to Skegness, when a north-westerly gale sprang up, and shortly after three o'clock in the after-...
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Harvest Home
CABOTOAN.—At 5.30 A.M., on the 9th February, the Life-boat Lizzie and Charles Leigh Glare was launched during a fresh gale from the N.N.E. to N., squally weather and a heavy sea, and rescued the crew, consisting of four men from the schooner...
The Loss of Life on and Near Our Coasts
A CAREFUL or interested reader of the article in THE LIFE-BOAT JOURNAL for last November, on the " Wreck Register and Chart for the year ended June 30th, 1884," cannot but be struck by the me- lancholy fact shown by the statistics,...
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Richard B. Wigfull & Son Ltd
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A very fine example of English...
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Telegraphic Communication With Lightships
IN the number of this Journal published in February 1885, we referred to the efforts then being made to connect the Sunk Lightship off the coast of Essex with the shore at Walton-on-the-Naze, a distance of about nine miles, by means of...
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Shoreline Section
THE BOAT SHOW at Earls Court in January went with a bang this year! First there was the bomb. Luckily no one was injured, and the way in which everyone walked quietly and calmly to the exits and cleared the building in a matter of minutes...
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The S.S. Crawford Castle
The Christmas Gales.
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston Life-boat's Four Launches in one Day.
THE gales at the end of October and November were followed by rough weather at the end of December, with heavy...
Another Crew Back to Oars Walton and Frinton Crew and Launchers Row Three Tons of Boarding Boat: Coxswain Frank Bloom (On Tiller) Derek Halls Jim Berry Bryan Wa
Another crew back to oars . . . Walton and Frinton crew and launchers row three tons of boarding boat: Coxswain Frank Bloom (on tiller), Derek Halls, Jim Berry, Bryan Ward, Steve Betson, Jack Barrett and Bobby Kemp.. - View image in PDF
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Town & Country Driveways Ltd
“WE WERE SO PLEASED WITH OUR BRILLIANT NEW DRIVEWAY, WE GOT TOWN & COUNTRY TO DO THE PATHS AND PATIO AS WELL”. Although a Town & Country driveway is beautiful to look at, it’s beauty is more than skin deep. Beneath the surface is a...
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