LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rejoice, Ina and Margaret A. Johnson
Blyth, Northumberland. — Shortly after 10 A.M. on the 12th February,1938, information was received from the Seaton Sluice and Blyth coastguards that fishing boats were out, and could not be seen. A northerly gale was blowing, with a very...
Four and a Half Years of War.
In four and a half years of war our life-boatmen have rescued 5536 lives, and have won 200 medals for gallantry. They have rescued twenty-four lives every week since war began..
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Tangled in Nets
On 3 March, 2 days into the scallop fishing season, a trawler crew member suffered serious head and neck injuries while trying to operate lifting gear.
New Quay’s Mersey class lifeboat crew were called out to prepare him...
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Restoration of the Apparently Drowned
IN the year 1864, after making exhaustive inquiries extending over some years, the Committee of Management • of the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION issued to all its Lifeboat stations the regulations for the restoration of the...
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Past and Present
75 years ago From THE LIFEBOAT of 1921 The Ladies' Life-boat Guild.
THE Institution has owed in the past, and still owes, so much to the generous and devoted service of women, that the Committee have long thought that...
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The Three-Masted S.S. Elaine
DUNGENESS.—It having been reported by the coastguard watchman, on the.
night of the 12th January, that a vessel was showing signals of distress, the Lifeboat B.A.O.B. was launched, and found the three-masted s.s. Elaine, of...
Yacht Little Genna
Shoreham Harbour, Sussex.—At 2.58 on the afternoon of the 31st of August, 1952, a message was received from the Palace Pier, Brighton, that a yacht appeared to be in difficulties off Brighton, and at 3.12 the life-boat Rosa Woodd and Phyllis...
Sir William Arnold Guernsey's New 52' Arun Lifeboat Was Named By Hrh the Duchess of Kent at St.Peter Port on May 23; It Was the First Visit Made By the Duchess To
Sir William Arnold, Guernsey's new 52' Arun lifeboat, was named by HRH the Duchess of Kent at St Peter Port on May 23; it was the first visit made by the Duchess to Guernsey—on a day of sun and showers she was warmly welcomed by the... - View image in PDF
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Lifeboat Services (Continued from Page 153)
Lifeboat Services (continued from page 153) (and their dog) were in turn taken by breeches buoy to the lifeboat. John Powell and Alwyn Emmerson were then recovered in the same way.
The operation was completed by 1720 and...
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