LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
From Foreign Societies
Japan.
THE Imperial Japanese Life-saving Institution issued in March of this year a pamphlet, written in English, giving a brief history of the Japanese Life-boat Service since the chief priest of the Kotohira Shrine in the...
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Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
SCARBOROUGH.—On the morning of the 2nd December, 1886, during a heavy gale from the N., the dandy Gustave, of and from St. Yalery-en-Canx for North Shields with flint stone, brought up in the roads about a mile S.E. from the piers, showed...
Category: Services
Lifeboat Museums and Display Centres By Richard Mann Display Manager
THE RNLI HAS SEVERAL small museums and display centres around the coast where those in search of lifeboat history can find model lifeboats, collections of paintings and photographs, perhaps some examples of equipment no longer used, or...
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The Bull Light Vessel
22nd August.
Went to the Bull Lightvessel, where one of the crew had died in the lan- tern.—Permanent Crew, Rewards, 6s..
Lerwick's New 52Ft Arun Lifeboat Soldian With Her Crew and Crew Reserves She Was Named By Hrh the Duke of Kent President of the Institution on September 12 19
Lerwick's new 52ft Arun lifeboat Soldian with her crew and crew reserves. She was named by HRH The Duke of Kent, president of the Institution on September 12, 1978.
Included in the report of the ceremony published in... - View image in PDF
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From the Director
Lt Cdr Brian Miles looks at the RNLI's plans for the future and at a busy and memorable 1993In any generation, improvements in the lifeboat service can always be achieved, and the recognition that tomorrow we should aim to be better than...
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The Ramsgate Life-Boat: A Rescue
CHAPTER I.
A WRECK OFT MARGATE.
THE night of Sunday, the 12th of February, in the present year, was what sailors call a very dirty night. Heavy masses of clouds skirted the horizon as the sun get; and,...
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Shipwrecked Fishermen and Mariners' Royal Benevolent Society
THIS Society held its Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting at the City Terminus Hotel on the 10th May last. The chair was taken by His Grace the DUKE OF MABLBOROUGH, K.G., the President. Amongst those present were THOMAS BRASSEY, Esq., M.P.,...
Category: Meetings
A Nelson Aboard the Nelsons of Donaghadee: Quintan One of the Nelson Family Members of Which Have Served In the Donaghadee Lifeboat Since the Station Was Establis
A Nelson aboard The Nelsons of Donaghadee: Quintan, one of the Nelson family, members of which have served in the Donaghadee lifeboat since the station was established in 1910 and after whom the new 44' Waveney lifeboat is... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboatmen of Skegness
Lifeboatmen of Skegness, past and present: (I to r) Coxswain/Mechanic Ken Holland, Crew Member Colin Moore, Second Coxswain Joel Crunnill, Crew Member Morris Hatton, former Motor Mechanic Wilfred Grunnill, Assistant Mechanic Johnny... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs