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The North West Passage - who was first? I am most concerned to read in The Lifeboat that David Scott- Cowper in the ex-lifeboat Mabel E. Holland carried out the first single handed navigation of the 2,000 mile North West...
Category: Correspondence
Percy and Elizabeth Blunden
Percy and Elizabeth Blunden opened their garden to the public at Keepers Cottage, Lindfield, West Sussex, last July. It was a beautiful day and their magnificent garden was looking its best for the 597 people who came to enjoy it and the... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Ada (1)
On the 14th November, at about 5.30 P.M., an easterly gale suddenly sprang up, accompanied by a heavy sea. The schooner Ada, of Beaumaris, bound from Plymouth to Buncorn, with china clay, had taken refuge in the bay, as she was leaking badly...
St Simeon (1)
French trawler in distress AT 0401 on the morning of Friday February 15, 1985, Falmouth's 52ft Arun class lifeboat, Elizabeth Ann, left the lee of Falmouth docks heading out to sea on service at full speed. Coxswain Viv Pentecost was at...
United States Life-Saving Service
THE Life-Saving Service of the United States comprised at the close of the fiscal year which ended on the 30th June, 1904, 273 stations, no increase in the number having taken place during the year. Of those stations 196 were situated on the...
Category: Articles
Peep Into The Past
Peep into the past Fascinating excerpts from the Lifeboat archives … 100 years ago The May 1907 Journal reported on experiments to improve life-belts and the early days of a new era in lifeboat crew kit: ‘The life-belt produced by the...
Category: Articles
The Hopper No. 42
— Just before midnight on the 12th-13th September the hopper No. 42, of London, which was making for Ply- mouth to coal, struck on the south side of the Plymouth Breakwater. The Life-boat Eliza Avins was launched to her assistance, and, on...
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A Profit of £400 Was Made for the RNLI at the Cheese and Wine Tasting Evening Held at the Royal Naval College Greenwich on 8Th September 1972 the 350 Tickets
by courtesy of David Crowden A profit of £400 was made for the R.N.L.I, at the cheese and wine tasting evening held at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich, on 8th September, 1972. The 350 tickets for the event were sold by local branches... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
(Above) Last December the 52Ft Burnett Euphrosyne Kendal on Temporary Duty at Yarmouth Isle of Wight Rendezvoused In the Solent With Air Commodore Brian Mac
(above) Last December the 52ft Burnett Euphrosyne Kendal on temporary duty at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, rendezvoused in the Solent with Air Commodore Brian Macnamuru's yacht, Tamare, to pick up festive fare and deliver it to the Needles... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs