LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
The Wreck Register and Chart for the Year Ended the 30th June, 1898
WE have much pleasure in drawing the special attention of our readers to the valuable statistics recently issued by the Board of Trade in their Annual Blue Book, which furnishes abstracts of the returns made to the Board of shipping...
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Royal National Life-Boat Institution, For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
For the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck.
(Incorporated by Royal Charter.') FOUNDED IN 1824 —SUPPORTED SOLELY BY VOLUNTARY Contributions.
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HER MOST Gracious MAJESTY THE...
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(Left) the Future Yarmouth Isle of Wight Arun Lifeboat Hull Building at Halmatic Havant During a Visit In April (I to R) C G Dove Chief Designer Halmatic Showed the Ne
(Left) The future Yarmouth, Isle of Wight Arun lifeboat hull building at Halmatic, Havant. During a visit in April, (I. to r.) C. G. Dove, Chief Designer, Halmatic, showed the new boat to Major-General R. A. Pigot, president of the Isle of... - View image in PDF
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A Baptism By Fire And Water
A BAptism By fiRe ANd WAteR At the northernmost tip of mainland Scotland, the waters of the Atlantic Ocean siphon into the North Sea and back again, twice a day, through a churning channel less than 7 miles wide. One new recruit will always...
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Patrick Mcloughlin Mp Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport
Patrick McLoughlin wp, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (centre) with the RNLI's director Lt Cdr Brian Miles (left) and chief of operations Commodore George Cooper (right) in the operations room during his visit to... - View image in PDF
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Saved for a Third Time
IN the last issue of The Lifeboat an account was given of services in which four different vessels had twice, within a short time, been helped by the same Life-boat.
Since then a vessel has been twice helped within four...
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Captain the Hon V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the RNLI Seen on the Occasion of His Visit to Flamborough In December
Captain the Hon. V. M. Wyndham-Quin, R.N., Chairman of the RNLI, seen on the occasion of his visit to Flamborough in December. The retiring coxswain of the Flamborough life-boat, Dick Cowling, is on the left of the picture. Albert Duke, the... - View image in PDF
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Barometers for Life-Boat Stations
THE NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION is about to place Barometers, wherever found practicable, at each of its life-boat stations round the coasts, in order that the seafaring population of the neighbourhood may be warned in time of a coming...
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Some Ways of Raising Money
National Lotteries YOU WILL FIND in this journal eight tickets for our fifth national lottery, also a reply paid envelope to use if you wish to take part. The tickets can be sold to any member of the public and not necessarily to members of...
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List of the Rewards Voted By the Royal National Life-Boat Institution, From the 1st January to the 31st December, 1862
Jan. 2.—Voted the Silver Medal of the Institution and 51. to Mr. THOMAS ADAMS, the master of the smack Volunteer, of Harwich. Also the Silver Medal and 21. to each of the 5 men who went off in the smack's boat to the wreck; and the...
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