LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Steam Life-Boat "Queen."
In the Life-boat Journal for November 1890, will be found a full description of j the first steam Life - boat, Duke of Northumberland, which boat has been' continuously "in commission," so to speak, since that year, first at...
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Index to the Gift Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
(Ife Jigwa refer to the number* of tte Life-doatt detailed on pagct 42-53.) A Lady, 16. Carting. Miss. 83, 178. Hollond, Mrs., tbe late, 127. Plimsoll Life-boat Funds, 61- A Lady, per Manchester Cyclist...
Category: Donations
Massive mission
When a 180m-long cargo vessel beached on a sandbank on 3 January, some crew members were trapped inside while others prepared to abandon ship. What happened next called on the skill and courage of four lifeboat...
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The Wreck Register and Chart
IN our issue of November, 1911, we observed that the Board of Trade had issued their "Abstracts on Shipping Casualties" earlier than usuai, thus enabling us to publish our article on the Wreck Register in November instead of...
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Services of the Freemasons' Albert Edward Life-Boat
IT will be remembered that at a special meeting of Grand Lodge, held more than a year ago, it was decided that the sum of 4,000?. should be voted to the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE BOAT INSTITUTION, for the purpose of founding two Life-boat Stations...
Category: Services
Motor Life-Boats of the Institution. No. 6.—The 41-Feet Beach (Aldeburgh) Type
WHEN the Institution designed two new types of motor life-boat (as described in previous issues of The Life- boat) sufficiently light to be launched off a carriage or the open beach it became possible to use motor power at a large number of...
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People and Places
On Station The following lifeboats have taken up station and relief fleet duties: ALL-WEATHER Workington - Tyne 47-028 (ON 1141) Sir John Fisher on 8 June 1992.
Peel -Mersey 12-22 (ON 1181) Ruby Clery on 10 June...
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Nestlea and Dereske
NOVEMBER 1 8 - 2 0TH. - BALTIMORE, COURTMACSHERRY, AND BALLYCOTTON, CO. CORK. About 10.30 A.M. a wireless message, which had been picked up at Cork, was received at Baltimore that the steamer Nestlea, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, had been attacked...
Northern Exposure
On a squally November night, time was rapidly running out for a fisherman in the water in Fraserburgh Harbour
It was quick thinking, forward planning and great teamwork by the local lifeboat...
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‘ THEY WERE UTTERLY FROZEN’
When three people found themselves clinging to the bow of a sinking sailboat in the Dee Estuary, their hopes lay in the skill of a lifeboat crew – and no small amount of luck
On 22 February...
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