LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
White and Black: Two Heroes
By GEORGE F. SHEE, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.
I HOPE that no one who receives this issue of The Life-Boat will fail to read the story of Victor Rojas, well named " The Providence of the Shipwrecked,"...
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Swept into sea AN ANGLER SWEPT into the sea north of Filey Brigg was reported to the deputy launching authority of Filey lifeboat station by HM Coastguard at 1222 on Sunday September 25, 1983. Nine minutes later the station's D class...
A 20 Mile Sponsored Walk In Aid of the R.N.L.I. Set Many Feet Walking from Bognor Regis to Selsey. on the Left Mr F. W. Shearing, Chairman of Bognor Regis Urban Council, Is Shown
A 20 mile sponsored walk in aid of the R.N.L.I. set many feet walking from Bognor Regis to Selsey. On the left Mr F. W. Shearing, chairman of Bognor Regis Urban Council, is shown with some of the walkers before they started their... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Of the Four Periods In the History of the Lifebout the First Covering the Days of the Pulling and Sailing Boats Is By Far the Longest Launch of the 35Ft Liverpool Lifeboat Samuel Lewis at Skegness In
Of the four periods in the history of the litcbodt. lilt' f i r s t , covering the days of the pulling ami sailing bouts, is by far the longest. Launch of the .Ifft Liverpool lifeboat Samuel Lewis tit Skegness in 1906.. - View image in PDF
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High Seas...
The photographer, Hunting Aerofilms, is offering copies of these photographs to readers of THE LIFEBOAT at well below normal rates - and is also making a donation of 25% of the price of each print to the RNLI.
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Mr. Barrie Bennetts
Mr. Barrie Bennetts, who had received the highest award the Institution can make to a voluntary worker, that of appointment as honorary life governor, died on the 26th of July, 1958, at the age of 75. He had been honorary secretary of the...
Category: Obituaries
Inaugural Ceremony of the Aberystwyth Motor Life-Boat
THE inaugural ceremony of the new motor life-boat was held at Aberystwyth on 20th April, in the presence of a large audience. The Earl of Lisburne, Lord- Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, the Bishop of St. David's and the Mayor and Mayoress...
Category: Inaugurations
Local Committees
An especial feature of the National Ship- wreck Institution, is the establishment of Local Committees for the management of their boats. As stated in the first number of this Journal, the Parent Institution looks to earnest, hearty...
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Success II, Faith Star,Pilot Me II,Provider A and Lead Us
Whitby, Yorkshire.—At 11.30 on the morning of the 24th of November, 1952, the coastguard reported that the local fishing boat Success II was mak- ing for Whitby in a heavy sea with a strong north-north-west wind. The No. 1 life-boat Mary Ann...
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,Aith Shetland*.— At 1.10 on the after- noon of the 15th of April, 1957, a doctor, after consulting with the Medi- cal Officer of Health, asked if the life- boat would take him to Foula to visit a very sick woman who, he suspected, might...