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The Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution

Date: May 1895

Volume: 16

Issue: 176

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Category: Articles

The bold fundraisers celebrate with the Mayor of Blackpool

Date: Spring 2019

Volume: 61

Issue: 627 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2019 North of England and Isle of Man Community News

Category: Photographs

DECK MACHINERY

Date: Spring 2016

Volume: 61

Issue: 615 Lifeboat Magazine Spring 2016

PROBLEM: The kit onboard a fishing vessel is expensive, and many crews ‘make do’, mend, or replace their broken machinery with kit that’s not always in line with modern safety standards. On top of that, crew training isn’t always as...

Category: Articles

The Barges Butcher and Maria, and Violet

Date: February 1882

Volume: 11

Issue: 123

SOUTHEND (ESSEX).—During a heavy gale from the S.W. and a rough sea, on the 14th October, the Boys of England Life-boat rescued the crews, consisting of four men in all, from the distressed barges Butcher and Maria, of...

On Instruction from the Coxswain and Second Coxswain

Date: Spring 1982

Volume: 48

Issue: 480

On instruction from the coxswain and second coxswain, the crew of Southsea lifeboat launch by pulling on the haul-off warp. This was a rope which was attached to an anchor offshore, allowing the lifeboat to be hauled out through the surf... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

John Owston, Forty-One Years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-Boat

Date: February 1912

Volume: 21

Issue: 243

John Owston Forty-One Years Coxswain of the Scarborough Life-Boat. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

The Trawler Evergreen, Wrecked Near Fraserburgh

Date: March 1936

Volume: 30

Issue: 325

The Trawler Evergreen Wrecked Near Fraserburgh. - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

Portrait on the Cover

Date: Spring 1950

Volume: 33

Issue: 354

The portrait on the cover is of Second-coxswain William J. Bailey, of Walmer, Kent. He joined the crew in 1917 at the age of twenty-four. He was appointed bowman in 1942, and second-coxswain in 1945..

Category: Articles

News from the Branches. 1st July to 30th September

Date: November 1932

Volume: 28

Issue: 312

Greater London.

BROMLEY AND COVENT GARDEN.— Life-boat Days.

BALING.—Addresses to Groavenor Ward Women's Conservative Association and the Rotary Club by the District Organizing Secretary. Life-boat...

Category: Branches

The S.S. Empire Castle, of Belfast

Date: 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1946

MAY 3RD. - WALMER, KENT. At 1.30 in the morning a doctor was needed on board the S.S. Empire Castle, of Belfast. A moderate north-easterly gale was blowing and the sea was rough. It was too rough for any shoreboat to put out, and at two...