LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
More than a work thing
‘You have a natural instinct with boats. No one can teach you that,’ said former Swanage Crew Member Winky Marsh to Holly Phillips then aged 15
A Londoner by birth, the young Holly spent her Summers in Swanage, Dorset, and...
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Margaret Jane
On the 13th October, a steamer was seen dragging her anchors in a whole gale and a rough sea. She collided with the schooner Margaret Jane, of Bangor, and drove across the bows of the Trinitysteamer Stella. In response to signals of distress...
Harwich: the Naming of the 44Ft Waveney John Fison at Trinity House Pier Photograph By Courtesy of Alfred H Smith
Harwich: The naming of the 44ft Waveney John Fison at Trinity House Pier. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of Alfred H. Smith. - View image in PDF
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Isle of lifesavers
Meet the men and women flying the lifesaving flag on the Isle of Man 190 years on ...
Norman Quillin
Ex-Coxswain/Mechanic, Port St Mary<...
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New D Class for North Sunderland
North Sunderland took possession of its new D class inshore lifeboat at a ceremony on Sunday, 26 April 1998, when it was officially named Martin, John & Ann.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Bedford Rotary Club's Pageant. £386 Contributed to the Institution
ONE of the most original and successful efforts on behalf of the funds of the Institution was carried out at Bedford on 27th June. It was an historical pageant organised by the Bedford Rotary Club, and was followed by a military tattoo. The...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee
Thursday, 10th January, 1901.
Colonel FitzRoY CLAYTON, V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the Minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and...
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RNLI FAMILY: THE LIFE
Celebrating the RNLI family, past and present
120 years at Walmer
Walmer Lifeboat Station is celebrating the dedication of three volunteers who, between them, have over 120 years
of service....
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Gael-na-Mara
JUNE 4TH. - DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO.
DUBLIN. Early in the afternoon information was received from the outgoing mail steamer Hibernia and the Coast Life-saving Service that a yacht was in distress some ten miles east of the Kish...
Notes of the Quarter By Patrick Howarth
THREE LIFEBOAT STATIONS have recently been re-opened. One of these is Fraserburgh, the station which suffered two major disasters in less than 20 years and from which the lifeboat was withdrawn after the 1970 disaster.
The...
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