LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Raft L'Egare II (1)
The Lizard and Falmouth, Cornwall.—• At 2.25 on the afternoon of the 20th of August, 1956, the Lizard coast- guard reported that the raft L'Egare II needed the help of a life-boat about thirty miles south-west of Lizard Head, and that...
Magna, of Helsingborg
OCTOBER 19TH. - WALMER, KENT. At 5.25 in the morning the Deal coastguard telephoned that the East Goodwin Lightvessel had reported a vessel ashore on the Sands. An easterly wind was blowing, with a moderate sea. The motor life-boat Charles...
The Blackwater Lightvessel
Rosslare Harbour, Co. Wexford.—At two o'clock on the afternoon of the 22nd of June, 1957, the inspector of Irish Lights telephoned that a member of the crew of the Blackwater light- vessel was injured and needed medical treatment...
As An Experiment Redditch Ladies' Guild Officers and Committee Recently Took Part In a Knit-In Having Successfully Raised £110 They Plan to Include All Guild Members Next T
As an experiment, Redditch ladies' guild officers and committee recently took part in a knit-in. Having successfully raised £110, they plan to include all guild members next time.
Photograph by courtesy of Redditch... - View image in PDF
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PORTRAIT OF A COXSWAIN ISO NOTES OF THE QUARTER 151 TENTH INTERNATIONAL LIFE-BOAT CONFERENCE 155 NAMING CEREMONIES - CROMER, GORLESTON AND NEWBIGGIN-BY-THE-SEA . . 157 PRESIDENT'S 25™ ANNIVERSARY .. .. ...
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A Canoe
Exhausted canoeist WHILE ON EXERCISE at 1615 on Friday, June 20, Port Talbot ILB crew saw people on the tip of the breakwater who were indicating that someone was in distress in the heavy surf on its seaward side. There was a fresh...
The Life-Boat Station at Porto De Leixoes, on the Coast North of the River Douro, Portugal
The Life-Boat Station at Porto De Leixoes on the Coast North of the River Douro Portugal. - View image in PDF
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The S.S. Marsworth
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.—At 12.27 early on the morn- ing of the 26th of November, 1953, the Gorleston coastguard rang up to say that the S.S. Marsworth, of London, had wirelessed that she was sinking.
She had...
The Life-Boat Service In 1935. The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years
The Busiest Year for Nineteen Years.
THE year 1935 was for the life-boat service the busiest for nineteen years.
There were 378 launches of life-boats to vessels in distress. To find a larger number one...
Category: Articles
Salvage of Property By the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
THE Committee of this Institution have found it necessary to reconsider the question regarding payments to their Life-boats' Crews, after they have rendered important assistance in saving property as well as lives, and accordingly the...
Category: Committee