LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
RNLI Family: The life of the charity
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
Next generation join dads on Douglas crew
Douglas Lifeboat Station, Isle of Man, has a history of lifeboating families. Sir William Hillary, who founded the...
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An Exhibition of Life-Boat Photographs
THE first exhibition of life-boat photographs to be held was shown in London in June and July. It consisted of upwards of seventy photographs taken all round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. The photographs showed wrecks, the...
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Accounts of Services by Life-boats (1)
Launches 18. Lives Rescued 7.
FEB. 11TH. - ROSSLARE HARBOUR, CO.
WEXFORD. At 9.55 P.M. a telephone message was received that the Coningbeg Lightvessel had signalled a passing steamer that she wanted the...
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Awards to Coxswains and Life-Boatmen. Certificates of Service and Pensions
The COXSWAIN'S CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE, and a PENSION, have been awarded to: THOMAS CBOWLEY, 31J years coxswain and If years second coxswain of the Fenit life-boat.
WILLIAM LINKLATEB, 8 years coxswain and 9J years bowman...
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Services of the Life-Boats. Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management
Reported to the September and October Meetings of the Committee of Management.
Reported to the September Meeting.
Ramsgate, Kent. — The Norwegian steamer Lovoy, of Haugesund, while bound from...
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The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
ISLE OF MAN.
XX. and XXI.—DOUGLAS.
No. 1. The Manchester and Salford Sunday Schools, 32 feet long, 7 feet 6 inches beam, 10 oars.
No. 2. The John Turner- Turner, 35 feet long, 9 feet...
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The S.S. Asse (1)
Amble, and Boulmer, Northumber- land.—17th October, 1939. A steamer had been reported in distress. Her position was given as nine miles S.E. of Coquet Island, and the Amble motor life-boat was launched. A warning of an air-raid had been...
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
JOHNSHAVEN, KINCARDINESHIRE.—The wind and sea having increased while some fishing-boats belonging to Gourdon were at sea on the 31st Jan., 1895, it was dangerous for them to attempt to return to their harbour. They were therefore warned off,...
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Accounts of Services by Life-boats (5)
Launches 29. Lives rescued 54.
JUNE 1ST. - LLANDUDNO, CAERNARVONSHIRE.
H.M. Submarine Thetis dived, while on trials in Liverpool Bay about fifteen miles from Llandudno, and did not come to the surface....
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