LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Record Summer
THE six summer months of this year have been the busiest which the Lifeboat Service has ever had in time of peace. Its boats have been out on service more often and have rescued more lives than ever before. The launches numbered 339, the...
Category: Services
H.M. Motor Launch E.C. 83
Bembridge, Isle of Wight.—At four in the afternoon of the 19th of March, 1952, the Foreland coastguard tele- phoned that a naval motor launch had run ashore at Black Rock, Whitecliff Bay, and at 4.13 the life-boat Milburn, on temporary duty...
Beaty
Caister, and Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—On the night of the 2nd October flares were seen about two miles north of Caister, and the pulling and sailing life-boat Charles Burton was launched at 11.15 P.M. A moderate south gale was...
Lifeboat Services from Page 82
from page 82 ties, exhausted by the strength of the tide and the coldness of the water. He towed them to Cowloe Rocks, which were much nearer than the shore, and told them to clamber over the top to the shoreward side while he paddled his...
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Walton and Frinlon: Two Photographs Taken B\ Motor Mechanic William Jenkins Put Side H\ Side V/Ioir the Damage Inflicted on Walton Pier H\ the Storms on New Year'
Walton and Frinlon: Two photographs taken b Motor Mechanic William Jenkins, put side h side, .v/ioir the damage inflicted on Walton pier h the storms on New Year's Eve. The landing stage for the station's boarding hont mis... - View image in PDF
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Burry Port Ladies' Guild Put on a Memorable Performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Last Christmas Produced By Janet Cross With a Large Cast of Youngsters W
Burry Port ladies' guild put on a memorable performance of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs last Christmas, produced by Janet Cross with a large cast of youngsters. With only a one-night stand, tickets were sold out weeks in advance and a... - View image in PDF
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Lord Herwick
The Life-boat Boys was, on the 8th November, successful in rendering assist- ance to tie schooner Lord Jlowick, of Maldon, which, in a heavy sea, was forced ashore on the Cockle Sand. The Boys towed this vessel safely into Yarmouth about 8...
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Crew member ensures safe berth
‘It was a truly amazing experience for us’
As a Courtmacsherry Harbour...
Category: Articles
Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
FOUNDED IN 1824.
Supported by Voluntary Contributions.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST...
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(Below) a Visit to Hq Operations Room
(Below) A visit to HQ operations room followed the opening ceremony. While Mrs Thatcher looks through lifeboat photographs, Mr Denis Thatcher signs the visitors' book.
With them are (I to r) Cdr George Cooper, deputy... - View image in PDF
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