LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Trip In a Swedish Rescue-Cruiser
(Member of the crew of the Beaumaris life-boat) IT was seven o'clock in the morning and raining slightly as I walked through the deserted streets of Gote- borg down to the docks where I was to board the Swedish rescue-cruiser Wilh: R....
Category: Articles
Rescue from Steamer Aground on Rocks
At 10.17 on the morning of the llth of March, 1959, the honorary secretary of the Blyth, Northumberland, station, Captain H. Rowe, learnt from the coastguard that a vessel was in difficulties a hundred yards east of Blyth east pier...
Category: Services
Twelfth Rnli Lottery Winners
Twelfth RNLI lottery winners BRUCE PARKER, a regular presenter of BBC South Today, came to Poole headquarters on April 30 to make the draw for the RNLl's twelfth national lottery. A Channel Islander who grew up on the Isle of Wight,...
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News from the Branches
Annual Meetings : Station Branches.
BLYTH (NORTHUMBERLAND).-—On 1st March, Alderman George E. Tynemouth, Chairman of the Branch, presiding.
The report for the year ending 30th September, 1926, showed that...
Category: Branches
What's On
YEAR OF THE SEA EXHIBITION
Ongoing
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
Discover the impact of the sea on Welsh landscape and culture at the Tra Môr yn Fur: Wales and the Sea exhibition until Saturday...
Category: Articles
Contents
The Autumn 1990 Lifeboat Royal National Lifeboat Institution Contents Volume 51 Number 513 Chairman: MICHAEL VERNON Director and Secretary: LT CDR BRIAN MILES RD FNIRNR Editor: MIKE FLOYD Headquarters: Royal National Lifeboat Institution,...
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During the Ceremony at Newhaven Two Unusual Presentations Were Made to Coxswain Len Patten; the First (Above) a Spare Pair of Gleaming Propellers from Bitterne
During the ceremony at Newhaven two unusual presentations were made to Coxswain Len Patten; the first (above), a spare pair of gleaming propellers from Bitterne and Woolston Round Table, and the second (below), a small barrel of brandy from... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Walmer Life-Boat
HARK ! a distant gun is sounding .
O'er the waters, wildly bounding; Raging waves are fast surrounding Some wrecked ship to-night On the shore the breakers, roaring, Loud as thunder now are pouring; Far a signal high...
Category: Poetry
November (1)
NOVEMBER MEETING MARGATE, KENT. About eight, in the morning of 12th June, 1940, two men and a boy, who were out fishing in a motor boat near the East Margate buoy, saw two aeroplanes fighting seven miles to the N.E., and one of the...
Category: Services