LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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AUGUST 11TH. - PORT ASKAIG, ARGYLLSHIRE. At the request of the doctor on the Island of Colonsay the motor life-boat Charlotte Elizabeth was launched at 11.45 A.M. in a strong westerly wind, and brought from Colonsay to Islay an expectant...
Bronze Medal Service By the Spurn Motor Life-Boat
AT ten o'clock on the night of 18th October two vessels were seen to be aground and showing signals of distress on the sandbanks, in the mouth of the Humber, known as The Binks, and the Spurn Motor Life-boat was launched. A strong wind...
Category: Medals
Seaway Endeavour
Nine rescued from ketch ashore on sands near Chichester Bar A difficult service which led to the rescue of nine people from a yacht aground on the East Pole Sands, just outside Chichester Harbour, has led to the chairman of the RNLI sending...
An Aeroplane (24)
OCT. 5TH. - CROMER, NORFOLK. An aeroplane was reported to have sent out a distress signal, but nothing could be found.
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Unsung heroes: Mike Howland
Lifeboat Press Officer,
Douglas Lifeboat Station
How did you first get involved with the RNLI?
I’m a hobby wildlife photographer, and my son was on the crew as deputy second coxswain. The press officer left...
Category: Articles
The Life-Boat Institution and the Mersey Dock and Harbour Board
FOE several years past the officers of) the MERSEY DOCK AND HARBOUR BOARD have been so much occupied and pressed by their many important duties that they have found it simply impossible to give the attention and care which they could have...
Category: Articles
Chums
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Category: Advertisement
Fairey Marine Ltd
FROM FAIREY.. THREE KINDS OF LIFEBOATS FOR THREE KINDS OF CONDITIONS.
All built to the highest standards. Standards that have made Fairey justifiably famous as lifeboat builders.
All three have all weather...
Category: Advertisement
A Fishing Boat and a Steamer
Torbay (Devon).
Between the 5th and the 7th December, with a strong gale blowing the whole time and a very heavy sea, the Torbay Motor Life-boat was out on service four times. She was out _for two hours on the 5th, rescuing...
Norman Forster
Three men and disabled pilot boat saved in Severe Gale and 20ft seas The rescue of three men aboard the pilot vessel Norman Forster in severe gale force winds and very heavy seas has earned Coxswain John Johnston of the Eyemouth lifeboat the...