LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Feature a Hazardous Industry
Although fishing vessels only make up some 14 per cent of RNLI call outs, more fishermen die at sea than any other group of sea user. It is widely recognised that fishing is the most dangerous industry in the worldIt was in 1994 that the...
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Travelscope
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IRB Launches North-West District
Rescues by IRBs in August were carried out by the following stations: Moelfre, Anglesey - At 4.55 p.m. on 8th August, 1966, a small boat was reported drifting out to sea off Moelfre island. The IRB was launched at 5 o'clock in a moderate...
Category: Services
An Aeroplane (194)
JUNE 26TH. - WELLS, NORFOLK.
Shortly after 9 in the morning the R.A.F. reported, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane had crashed in the sea, and the motor life-boat Royal Silver Jubilee l910- 1935 was launched at...
United States Life-Saving Service
THE Annual Report of the operations of the United States Life-Saving Service for the year ended the 30th June, 1894, was issued a few months since from the Gov- ernment Printing Office at Washington, and we learn from it that there are now...
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Royal National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck
National Institution FOR THE PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.
ESTABLISHED IN 1824.
SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY SUBSCRIPTIONS.
PATRONESS.
HER MOST GRACIOUS MAJESTY THE...
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Letters
Silver Jubilee We were delighted to read about the present Wells' lifeboat in the winter issue of the journal and also to hear about the naming by Princess Margaret last November of Margate's new Rother lifeboat, Silver Jubilee...
Category: Correspondence
Englishman, of Workington & Schooner Lewis Jane, of Drogheda
On the 23rd De- cember the brig Englishman, of Working- ton, and the schooner Louisa Jane, of Drogheda, while running for the river Boyne, became unmanageable through a sudden change of the wind, and drove on the South Bull in a heavy sea....
Two Sailboards, a Dinghy, two Yachts, a Catamaran and a Trimaran
An afternoon's work A SOUTH-EASTERLY NEAR GALE, force 7.
deteriorating to gale force 8 with heavy rain squalls was blowing at Hayling Island during the afternoon of Saturday September 19, 1981. The tide was ebbing so...
(Above) Leeds Appeal Committee Organised a Charity Greyhound Meeting at Elland Road Stadium on May 6 Various Firms In the City Sponsored the Eight Races to £100 Ea
(Above) Leeds appeal committee organised a charity greyhound meeting at Elland Road Stadium on May 6. Various firms in the city sponsored the eight races, to £100 each, and a very successful and enjoyable occasion yielded about... - View image in PDF
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