LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Premier and Pride
Scarborough, Yorkshire. — On the 31st October, 1939, a strong easterly wind was blowing, with a rough sea.
Two local fishing boats Premier and Pride were out, and anxiety was felt for their safety. The life-boat crew and...
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Watching the Cox’s Bazar lifeguards receive their awards in December (see Rescue, p16), it struck me that this could have been any lifeguard club back...
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Fall from cliff INFORMATION that a man had fallen over the cliff near the Western Carricks was given to St Ives station honorary secretary by Land's End Coastguard at 1351 on Wednesday August 26, 1981, and he was asked to launch the D...
Life-Boat Families. The Cables of Aldeburgh, Suffolk
By Walter Riggs, Hon. Secretary of the Aldeburgh Branch.
THERE has been a Life-boat Station at Aldeburgh in Suffolk for over a century.
The earliest record of it which the Institution has, is that in...
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Thea, of Groningen
APRIL 2 8TH. - BRIDLINGTON AND FLAMBOROUGH, YORKSHIRE. On the night of the 27th the Dutch motor vessel Thea, of Groningen, bound with a cargo of china clay from Grangemouth to Antwerp, foundered in Bridlington Bay. She had eight on board....
The New Brighton Life-Boat
THE new Motor Life-boat now being built for the Institution's Station at New Brighton, the first of the 60-foot Barnett twin-screw Boats with cabins, will, it is hoped, be completed and ready to be sent to her station this summer. It has...
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(Above Left) Mrs Antonia Wallace Heaton Honorary Secretary of Kensington Branch With Some of Her Enthusiastic Royal Navy Helpers at the Ideal Home Exhibition Ol
(Above, left) Mrs Antonia Wallace Heaton, honorary secretary of Kensington branch, with some of her enthusiastic Royal Navy helpers at the Ideal Home Exhibition, Olympia, last spring. During the exhibition Navy crews collected £207.98... - View image in PDF
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Aqualift
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Public Servant (Civil Service No 44) at Tower
Public Servant (Civil Service No 44) at Tower This was the first of the Thames E class lifeboats to be named.
The money for the boat was raised by The Lifeboat Fund, which has been raising money for the RNLI for 140 years... - View image in PDF
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The S.S. English Trader
SILVER AND BRONZE MEDAL SERVICES AT CROMER AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON OCTOBER 26TH - 27TH. - CROMER, AND GREAT YARMOUTH AND GORLESTON, NORFOLK. About eight in the morning a message came from the Cromer coastguard that the Yarmouth...