LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Shipwreck. The Life-Boat Service
WE have extracted the following account of a Shipwreck and Life-boat service from an entertaining work, A Marine Residence, by the Author of Lost Sir Massingbred, published by Messrs. CHAPMAN and HALL.
The incidents...
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Right. An Rib-Trained Ministry of Defence Police Marine Officer
Right. An fl/fltramed Ministry of Defence Police Marine Officer wearing the Gecko helmet. - View image in PDF
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Additional Stations and New Life-Boats
BLYTH, NORTHUMBERLAND AND NEWBIGGIN, ABERDEENSHIRE.—THE ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION has forwarded new Life-boats to Blyth and Newburgh to take the place of Life-boats sent there some years since. Each boat is 31 feet long, 1 feet...
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48 Hours of Gale
66 Launches, 7 lives rescued, 21 vessels savedSEPTEMBER WAS USHERED IN by a Week of very high winds rising to gale and storm force—a week when there were many calls on the lifeboat service all round our coasts. Reports of boats in trouble...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
FRASERBURGH, N.B.—About 9.30 P.M. on the 30th July last, the tug-boat Ex- pert arrived in this harbour with the infor- mation that she had passed a schooner at anchor on the lee side of the bay, in dis- tress from leakage, and in expectation...
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Swedish Journey
THIS is the story of a cruise among the islands of the West Coast of Sweden in August, 1950, by the ex Royal National life-boat Henry Frederick Swan, and her crew of Sea Scouts.
Henry Frederick Sivan, which is a 40 foot...
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Why People Support the Life-Boats
WHY PEOPLE SUPPORT THE LIFE-BOATS The principal reason why people support the Royal National Life-boat Institution is that it saves lives irrespective of nationality, colour or creed. The second most important reason is that the R.N.L.I,...
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Double Celebrations
Double celebrations On 19 October 1996 Red Bay lifeboat station had double reason to celebrate - the naming ceremony of their new Atlantic 75 lifeboat, Dorothy Mary coincided with the official opening of the station's new... - View image in PDF
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Books
The Cromer Lifeboats by Bob Malster and Peter Stibbons (Poppyland Publishing), available from Cromer RNLI honorary secretary, 33 Hillside, Cromer, Norfolk, for £1.20 plus 25p post and packing, is the third edition of booklets about the...
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