LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Fishermen rescued
30 January: Teignmouth lifeboat rescued five fishermen from a capsized trawler near the mouth of the River Teign. Volunteer Press Officer Tony Watson says: ‘This just shows that accidents can happen, even to...
Category: Articles
HELM'S QUICK THINKING
WICKLOW | 20 JUNE
When a woman slipped and fell while stepping ashore from a moored boat, it was lucky that RNLI Helm Vinnie Mulvihill was at hand. Vinnie was tending the Wicklow lifeboat when he heard shouting and realised that...
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Peter Farnworth
Another prepared to show his face after ten years of beard is Peter Farnworth who persuaded colleagues in the Control Systems and Accessories Department of Rolls Royce, Derby, to part with a total of £105 to go towards Cromer's... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
An International Life-Boat Organization
By George F. Shee, M.A., Secretary of the Institution.IT will be remembered that at the Inter- Comnational Life-boat Conference, held in London on 1st and 2nd July, 1924, in which representatives of nine nations took part, a resolution was...
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Irb Launches on Service During the Months September, October and November, 1971
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire Abersoch, Caernarvonshire Arbroath, Angus Atlantic College, Glamorganshire Barmouth, Merionethshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Blackpool, Lancashire Borth, Cardiganshire Broughty Ferry, Angus Bude, Cornwall Burnham-on-Crouch...
Category: Services
Life-Boot Launches on Service During the Months December 1971 January and February 1972
Aldeburgh, Suffolk Angle, Pembrokeshire Arbroath, Angus Arklow, Co. Wicklow Arranmore, Co. Donegal Baltimore, Co. Cork Barrow, Lancashire Barry Dock, Glamorganshire Beaumaris, Anglesey Bembridge, Isle of Wight Berwick-upon-Tweed,...
Category: Services
Other Life-Boat Launches
In addition to the services by life-boats which resulted in saving lives and which are recorded in full on pages 642, 646 and 648, the following launches on service were made during the months December 1968, January, February, 1969,...
Category: Services
Services of the Life-Boats of the Institution During 1935
4. 4.55 a.m. 4. 11.15 a.m. 4. 11.20 a.m. 4. 4.33 p.m. 8. 5.0 p.m. 9. 11.30 a.m. 11. 7.52 a.m. 11.
11. 3.30 p.m.
4.37 p.m. 13. 10.25 a.m. 13. 3.15 p.m. 22. 9.5 p.m. ...
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The Wreck Register and Chart for 1874-75
THE wreck statistics of the twelve months ending in June, 1875, certainly record the most numerous casualties that have hitherto taken place in one year. The officers of H.M. Coastguard and Board of Trade have left not a single shipping ac-...
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SPECIAL DELIVERY
READER INSPIRATION: WORDS
I am a member of a writers’ group. Recently we were asked to write about a lighthouse. It brought me back to my childhood when I was always fascinated by the man in the lighthouse. Those times have passed...
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