LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Lifeboat Services August September and October 1987
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Relief 52ft Arun: August 24 and 31 D class inflatable: September 7 Aberdovey, Gwynedd Atlantic21: August 1. 3, 11 and 12. 17, 28 (twice), October 5 and 25 (twice) Abersoch, Gwynedd Atlantic 21: August 16, 24,...
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Royal opening for Cowes station
HM The Queen opened the new Cowes Lifeboat Station on 25 July.
The new station is 4 minutes closer to the Solent than the previous building. These 4 minutes could be the difference between life and death in an area like...
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The Heavy Gales of the 2nd and 3rd December, 1863. Life-Boat Services
AT no recent period have the disastrous effects of storms been more severely than during the hurricane of the 2nd and 3rd December last.
Its results were felt, more or less, in all parts of the country. About 11 A.M. on...
Category: Services
Century Life-Boat Day In London
CENTURY Life-boat Day was held on 20th May, in nearly eighty of the main boroughs and urban districts of Greater London, and the Institution had the generous help of both the Duke and Louise, Duchess of Argyll, Patron of the Ladies' Life...
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Fundraising
For teams of RNLI supporters who were game for an adventure and wanted to help raise funds for the lifeboats, all they needed were some crew and some wheels to take part in the RNLI Lifeboat Challenge.The 2001 North East Lifeboat Challenge...
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The Torbay Devon Life-Boat Arriving at Brixham on 9Th July 1968 With 126 Holidaymakers Rescued
The Torbay, Devon, life-boat arriving at Brixham on 9th July, 1968, with 126 holidaymakers rescued from the Torquay to Brixham ferry, Western Lady, which ran aground in thick fog.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Coming Ashore
One of the four survivors of a steamer which was blown up on 15th November, 1939, and sank in a few minutes with her crew of thirteen. Nine were drowned. Four were picked up from the sea by another steamer, three of them badly injured, and... - View image in PDF
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An Aeroplane (24)
FEBRUARY 28TH. - CROMER, AND SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK. A British aeroplane coming towards land was heard to strike the water. Aeroplanes and launches, as well as the life-boats, made a long search but all that was found was one body, by a launch,...
Index to the Life-Boat Stations of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
OF THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION. (The figures refer to the numbers of the Life-boats detailed on pages 50-61.) Aberdovey, Merioneth, 163.
Abersoch, Carnarvon, 167. Orogbeda, Ireland, 256.
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Notes of the Quarter By the Editor
THE STORY OF 'The Year of the Lifeboat', 1974, was one of a triumph of faith: faith in a service of 150 years' standing and of the voluntary principle which is its essence, faith in the capacity of the voluntary workers of the...
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