LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Guatemala
BROADSTAIRS.—In reply to signal guns from the light-ship, the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat was launched at 8.55 P.M.
on the 30th June. When about half way to the Goodwin Sands, she was taken in tow by the steam-tug...
Afon Gwili
DECEMBER 17TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 8.40 in the morning the coastguard reported a vessel ashore on the Brake Sands and asked that the life-boat should be launched immediately.
A south-west gale was blowing, with a rough sea....
Lionel Lukin - Lifeboat Inventor
Denied credit during his lifetime, Lionel Lukin has since been acknowledged as 'the first who built a Life Boat'. To commemorate the inventor's 250th birthday last May, assistant public relations officer Robin Sharp relates the...
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BIDEFORD.—A new life-boat 34 feet long, and fitted to row either with six oars singlebanked, or twelve short oars double-banked, has been placed at Appledore, near Bideford, in lieu of a smaller one previously there. The cost of the boat was...
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The Song of the Life-Boat's Crew
WE are indebted to THOMAS GRAY, Esq., the talented Assistant Secretary of the Marine Department of the Board of Trade, for the following interesting song adapted to the well-known music " Heart of Oak." Messrs. CHAPPELL of Bond...
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Two Gold Medals
THE rescue from the Greek motor vessel Nafsiporos, in which fifteen men were saved by the Holyhead and Moelfre lifeboats, will probably long be recalled as one of the great achievements in the life-boat service.
Coxswain...
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A Hundred Years Ago
An extract from The Life-boat, or Journal of the National Shipwreck Institution, July, 1854.
Ix the autumn of 1853, a new life-boat was stationed at Dover by the Dover Humane Society to replace their old one. This boat...
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The French Life-Boat Society
The New Motor Life-boat for Calais.
LIKE the Institution, La Societe Centrale de Sauvetage des Naufrages publishes in its second half-yearly Report for 1929 a preliminary survey of the activities and progress during that...
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Betty, of Cork
Ballycotton, Co. Cork.—At 12.50 in the afternoon of the 12th of September, 1949, the chairman of the Youghal life- boat station telephoned that he was anxious for the safety of his son and another man who had left Youghal for Cork in...
The Life-Boat of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
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