LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Category: Articles
The Life-Boats of the United Kingdom. Montrose Branch
LXV. MONTROSE No. 1.—The Mincing Lane, 33 feet by 8J feet, 10 oars.
LXVI. Ditto No. 2.—The Roman Governor of Caer Hun, 30 feet by 8 feet, 10 oa s. ' STANDING upon what may be termed a narrow sandy peninsula, is to be...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats In December, 1949 and January and February, 1950. 112 Lives Rescued
DURING December life-boats went out on service 44 times and rescued 19 lives.
THE MEN FROM THE PRU Ramsgate, Kent.—At 8.5 in the morn- ing of the 3rd of December, 1949, the pier shore attandant reported that a boat in which...
Category: Services
(Below Left) Crimdon Dene April 10: R Kirkland An Exeuctive Committee Member of the Ancient Order of Foresters and T P Reynolds Honorary Secretary of the Ilb Stat
(Below, left) Crimdon Dene, April 10: R. Kirkland, an exeuctive committee member of the Ancient Order of Foresters, and T. P. Reynolds, honorary secretary of the ILB station, at the handing-over ceremony.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boat Stations of the United Kingdom
XVI.—BROADSTAIRS.
The Samuel Morrison. Collins, 36 feet long, 9 feet 2 inches beam, 12 oars.
THE Broadstairs Life-boat of the Institution is one of the largest class, and well adapted for ser- vice as a...
Category: Articles
Wreck of H.M.S. Anson
THE following narrative of the wreck of H.M.S. Anson will, we doubt not, be read with interest. Certainly, it is not a recent occurrence; but there are incidents in it, as in many others of a similar character, which are deserving of being...
Category: Services
Notes of the Quarter
FOR LIFEBOAT PEOPLE 1982 was a very full year. The Institution's lifeboats were called out more than 3,000 times and the number of lives rescued was the highest in the past seven years: 1,244.
These figures are...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution
NORTHUMBERLAND. — Oh the morning of the 17th November; while a large number of fishing-boats were out, the wind rose, on the turn of the tide, to a strong gale from S.E. The sea was also very rough. The cobles that were nearest the shore...
Category: Services
The Foundering of the "Northfleet," January 1873
A fragment* 'MIDST the thick darkness Death, The dread inexorable monarch, stalked ; And, lo! his icy breath Encircled the devoted barque where talked, Or laughed, or watched, or slept, The doomed three hundred of her living freight,...
Category: Poetry
Life-Boats of Six Countries on the Thames
LIFE-BOATS have already been seen on the Thames. In the Pageant of the Sea Services of the War, which was held on the Thames, in 1919, with the King in his Royal Barge at the head, two Life-boats took part, the steam Life-boat James Stevens...
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