LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Life-Boat Service on Exhibition
DURING the past few months, the Life- boat Service has been represented at three different exhibitions. From December 26th-31st, 1950, there was a scientific exhibition at the Imperial College, South Kensington, organised by Crosby Hall (the...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution—continued
BRIGHSTONE GRANGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.— The Worcester Cadet Life-boat was launched at 8.20 P.M. on the 3rd January, 1884, signal guns of distress having been heard in the direction of the " Atherfield Ledge" rocks during a thick fog and...
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Cover Picture
Bridlington 37ft Oakley lifeboat William Henry and Mary King setting out through heavy swells in the harbour month on August 14, 1979, to go to the help of the fishing coble Sincerity a mile south east of the station. The lifeboat was under... - View image in PDF
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Stuck fast, then footloose
Hartlepool crew battled to save a 16-year-old boy stuck waist-deep in sand with a rapidly rising tide on 30 September 2011. The boy had got his foot caught when helping two younger members of his family from the water. The crew used a hose...
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Two Fishing Boats
After a severe storm which was experienced here on the 24th August had somewhat abated, about 200 of the fishing-boats put to sea, but at nightfall a gale of much violence came on from the N.N.W., and those of the crews who had not cast...
Mr. Alasdair Garrett, Who Is Promoting the Y.L.A. on Behalf of the R.N.L.I.,
Mr. Alasdair Garrett, who is promoting the Y.U.A. on behalf of the R.N.L.I., looking on at the Dublin Boat Show in March/April, 1970, as two members are enrolled. At this show 140 Y.L.A. members were recruited.. - View image in PDF
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Vandra
Southend-on-Sea, Essex. At 7.58 on the evening of the 20th of October, 1957, the coastguard telephoned to say a vessel was flashing S.O.S. and burning distress rockets south of Swatchway buoy. The life-boat Greater London II (Civil Service...
A Rowing Boat
APRIL 5TH. - SHERINGHAM, NORFOLK.
During the morning, four of the crew of the minesweeper Port Rose, which was anchored two or three miles to the north of Sheringham, came ashore in a rowing boat. The weatherwas fine with a...
First Rescue Ever from a Hovercraft
ON the 17th September, 1962, a service of a unique kind was carried out when for the first time a rescue was effected by life-boat from a hovercraft. The hovercraft was the first to be used on public service in this country and operated...
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An Aeroplane (1)
29th October. Distress flares reported but nothing could be found. It was prob- ably the aeroplane to which Dover also launched.—Rewards £40 7s. 9d.
(A full account of this launch appears on p. 8, of this...