LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
‘SHE WENT QUICK’
With a trawler in trouble off a remote archipelago in Shetland, Lerwick lifeboat crew would need to pull on insider knowledge and all their experience if they were to get the five fishermen to safety
Coxswain Alan Tarby’s...
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The RNLI and me: Julian Fellowes
The multi-award winning creator of Downton Abbey tells us about visiting a lifeboat station and imagines it as a setting for a new drama
WHO IS JULIAN FELLOWES?
Julian Fellowes is a novelist, Conservative peer,...
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The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom
LXX. HUNSTANTON.—Licensed Victualler, 34 feet by 7J feet, 10 oars.
A distinction should be made between old and new Hunstanton; the latter, commonly known by the name of Hunstanton St. Edmunds, is situate about a mile south...
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The Latvian Steamer Everline, of Riga and Nolsoy
The First Service of the Lerwick Life-boat.
LAST year the Institution established a Life-boat Station at Lerwick in the Shetlands. This is the first Life-boat Station to be established on those islands, and was made...
The Danish Cargo Vessel Lone Dania (1)
Two lifeboats capsize and right A DANISH CARGO VESSEL, Lone Diinia, in distress six miles north west of Skerryvore Lighthouse was reported by HM Coastguard to the honorary secretary of Barra Island lifeboat station at 2355 on Saturday...
A Corner In Cumbria: Workington Silloth and St.Bees Three Lifeboat Stations on the Solway Firth and Its Southern Approaches
THREE CUMBRIAN STATIONS, St BeeS, Workington and Silloth, complementing each other, are the guardians of the southern approaches to the Firth of Solway and of the firth itself, just as Kirkcudbright and Kippford guard the waters to the north...
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Summary of the Meetings of the Committee of Management
THURSDAY, 11th October, 1906. SIR EDWARD BIRKBECK, Bart., V.P., in the Chair.
Read and confirmed the minutes of the previous meeting.
Also read those of the Building, Finance and Correspondence, and...
Category: Committee
Lifeguards Uncovered
In 2002 the RNLI operated 43 Beach Rescue units and Beach Rescue lifeguards saved 22 lives. Across the South West they dealt with 867 major incidents. These figures are impressive, but statistics don't tell the whole story. To find out...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
CASTLETOWN, ISLE OF MAN.—Signals of distress being shown by a schooner passing Castletown Bay to the eastward, making rapidly towards Langness Point, and apparently in a helpless condition during a gale of wind from the N.W. with snow...
Category: Services
Life-Boatmen on the Air. Coxswain's Talks and An Empire Broadcast
AFTEK their busiest winter on the seas for twenty years, life-boatmen have been very busy during the past year on the air. There have been nine broadcasts in which English, Scottish, Irish and Welsh coxswains have taken...
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