LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Fishing Boat
JAN. 19TH. -BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND.
A local motor fishing boat was overdue, but she got in unaided, after having been delayed by a fouled propeller.-Rewards, £14 9s. 6d..
Taking Shipwrecked Persons from a Wreck, and Their Stowage In a Life-Boat
As the running before a heavy broken sea is the most dangerous operation which a life-boat has to perform, and its safe execu- tion may often depend, not only on the skilful management of the oars or sails and steerage, but also on the...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution. Its Object and Work
(Supported solely by Voluntary Contributions.) ITS OBJECT AND WORK.
The work of the Institution mainly consists of— 1. Building, equipping and maintaining Life-boats, transporting carriages, boathouses and slipways,...
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Feature: the House That Vic Built
Lifeboat stations around the coast are subject to immense wear and tear from the launch and recovery of lifeboats and exposure to the elements. If lifeboats are to remain operational their boathouses and slipways must, however, be kept in a...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
REDCAR AND MIDDLESBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE.
—The Redcar life-boat men having refused to work their boat, as they considered it was not large enough, a larger and more roomy life-boat has been supplied to them in its place. It is...
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Visit to Clovelly: Rudolf Graf Meets Once Again Members of the Crew Who Rescued Him from the Bristol Channel After His Heinkel Bomber Had Been Shot Down (L to R) Ex-
Visit to Clovelly: Rudolf Graf meets once again members of the crew who rescued him from the Bristol Channel after his Heinkel bomber had been shot down. (I. to r.) Ex- Mechanic Charles Shackson, ex-Bowman Oscar Abbott, ex-German Airman... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Yesterday: Norman Clark Launches from Her Carriage on a Bleak Day With Snow on the Ground and Dusting 'The Law' Rising Majestically Above the Town Lifeboat Crew And
Yesterday: Norman Clark launches from her carriage on a bleak day with snow on the ground and dusting 'The Law', rising majestically above the town. Lifeboat crew and shore helpers would have come mostly from fishing... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
SOUTHEND, CANTYRE, N.B. — The NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has formed a Life-boat Establishment, under the management of the Campbeltown Local Committee, at the south end of Cantyre, near Dunaverty Castle, where JANUARY 1, 1870.] THE...
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The G.P.O. "Medico" Service
ONE of the lesser known services to which the R.N.L.I. makes a big con- tribution is the Post Office "Medico" service. The twelve G.P.O. coast radio stations, including the world-wide radio- telegraph station at Burnham-on-Sea,...
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A Small Rowing and Sailing Boat
JULY 16TH. - WHITEHILLS, BANFFSHIRE.
At 12.25 in the afternoon the Banff coastguard telephoned that a small rowing and sailing boat appeared to be in difficulties about one mile north-north-east of Banff. A fresh south-east...