LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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A Startling Compendium of Facts, Feats and Figures THE COUNTRY LIFE BOOK OF NAUTICAL TERMS UNDER SAIL An illustrated guide to the language of the great sailing ships and the men aboard them Fascinating, unusual, and always with a sound...
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Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, Are Often Attracted to This Large R.N.L.I. Codfish Collecting Box Which Stands at the Approach to the Beach. Mr. W. E. Russell Is the Honorary Volunt
Visitors to Robin Hood's Bay, Whitby, Yorkshire, are often attracted to this large R.N.L.I. codfish collecting box which stands at the approach to the beach. Mr.
W. E. Russell is the honorary volunteer emptier of this... - View image in PDF
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
ABERSOCH, CAERNARVONSHIRE. — While the wind was blowing, with the force of a whole gale to a storm, from W.N.W. to N.W., with terrific squalls and a very heavy sea, on the 12th Jan. last, signals of distress were exhibited by the schooner...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution (continued.)
RAMSGATE.—On the 3rd April, 1882, at 11 A.M., the Bradford Life-boat proceeded, to the East Goodwin Light vessel, which was firing signal guns. The wind was blowing a strong breeze from the E. and there was a thick fog. On arriving at the...
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Solstad
OC T. 10T H . - BROUGHTY FERRY, ANGUS, AND ABERDEEN. The Swedish vessel Solstad, of Karlstad, had been reported in distress with her steering gear dis-abled, about fifteen miles S.E. of Montrose, and the Montrose motor life-boat was unable...
Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 26 May 1993 show that so tar during 1993: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 661 times (an average of more than 4 launches a day) 134 lives have been saved (an average of nearly one a day)...
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Two Royal Army Service Corps Motor Fishing Vessels
JUNE 4TH. - YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT. At 7.45 in the evening the Needles Signal Station telephoned that pilots had reported two vessels ashore on the Shingles Bank. A moderate south-westerly gale was blowing and the sea was rough. At eight...
Puffin
About 3.15 P.M. on the 18th March, the yawl | Puffin, of Wexford, with a crew of six hands, grounded on the west side of the bar, when coming into port from the fishing-grounds. The crew of the Life- boat James Stevens No. 15 were at once...
An Air-Sea Rescue Launch
Tenby, Pembrokeshire. At seven o'clock on the morning of the 24th of March, 1958, a message was received from 1115 Marine Craft Unit, Royal Air Force, that one of the unit's air-sea rescue launches had broken adrift from her moorings...