LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Portrush: Pulling and Sailing to Fast Afloat Arun By Joan Davies
AT NOON on Sunday March 1, 1981, a new Arun class lifeboat was placed on service at Portrush lifeboat station, and yet another page was turned in a story of lifesaving on the north coast of Ireland which began in 1860. That was the year in...
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Obituary
ADMIRAL JOHN HALLIDAY CAVE, C.B., V.P.—The Institution has sustained a grievous loss through the death of Admiral Cave, who passed away at his residence, 17, Palace Gate, Kensington, on Sunday, the 31st March, in his 86th...
Category: Obituaries
Century Life-Boat Day In London: The Duchess of Norfolk and Some of Her Helpers In the City
Century Life-Boat Day In London: The Duchess of Norfolk and Some of Her Helpers In The City. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Kind of Conditions In Which Aberystwyth's C Class Lifeboat Operates - and This Is a Relatively Quiet Day
The kind of conditions in which Aberystwyth's C class lifeboat operates - and this is a relatively quiet day.. - View image in PDF
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James Dougal Receives His Silver Medal for Gallantry from Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution
James Dougal receives his Silver medal for Gallantry from HRH The Duke of Kent, President of the Institution.. - View image in PDF
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January
JANUARY Launches 35 Lives rescued 39 JANUARY 1ST. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE.
Shortly after one in the afternoon, the flag-officer-in-charge, Liverpool, requested the services of a life-boat to land a soldier who was...
Category: Services
Maya, of Beirut
On 1st December, 1966, the Swanage life-boat R.L.P. landed a sick man from the motor vessel Maya of Beirut. A full account of this service, for which a special award was made to Doctor D. I. Aitken, appears on page 144..
Book Reviews
• In Rescue Call (Kaye & Ward, 2is.) Angus Mac Vicar has written an admirable brief history of the life-boat service. It is extremely readable and a great deal of information has been packed into no more than 128 pages. Many of the...
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Will Everard
Caister, Norfolk. At 8.20 on the morning of the 13th of December, 1960, the life-boat mechanic telephoned to say the barge Will Everard was aground on Scroby Sand due east of the life-boat station. This was confirmed later by the coastguard....
News from the Branches
1st January to 31st March.
[Since September of last year the " News from the Branches " has been given in a more abbreviated form than before, but reference has been made to the work of many more Branches. To...
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