LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers
SILVER MEDAL SERVICE AT DOVER Nov. 26TH. - DOVER, KENT.
During the morning H.M. Trawler Blackburn Rovers, with 16 men on board, was on anti-submarine patrol off Dover near the minefields. A full gale was blowing from the...
Winter Storms
4Extreme weather in the fi rst weeks of 2008 meant a busy time for several lifeboat stations. Stornoway’s Severn class lifeboat Tom Sanderson was out in force 11 winds, classed a violent storm, on 1 February. The trawler Spinningdale had run...
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Thorsons
BOOKS FOR A BETTER LIFE " "A Doctor's Proven New Home Cure For Arthritis" More than a million people in the United Kingdom have 'their lives impaired by ; arthritis. Osteopath, Giraud Campbell, has advised hundreds of...
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Today's Lifeboatmen
Facts and Figures Provisional statistics as at 20 May 1994 show that so far during 1994: The RNLI's lifeboats were launched 446 times (an average of 3 launches a day) 146 lives were saved (an average of one a day) Some 11 % of all...
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Focus On... Torbay
'ONE of the outstanding things about our station', explained Mr. Frederick W. H. Park, M.B.E., honorary secretary of the Torbay, South Devon, life-boat station, 'is that we are never short of men to man the life-boats. As for...
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Signals of Distress In the Night
THE need has been long felt of a shipwreck night-signal of distress, which could be seen from a far distance; be as different as possible from ordinary lights, so as not to be mistaken for one; be inexpensive, and above all be portable and...
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Three Hard-Working Supporters Each Receive a Donation for the Rnli and Encouragement from Mrs Margaret Thatcher Leader of the Opposition: Chelsea Pensioner
Three hard-working supporters each receive a donation for the RNLI, and encouragement from Mrs Margaret Thatcher, Leader of the Opposition: Chelsea Pensioners (I. to r.) Frank Elverson, Topper Brown and Joe Marriott, who between them... - View image in PDF
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When Hm the Queen Visited Shetland In May to Open Sullom Voe Oil
When HM The Queen visited Shetland in May to open Sullom Voe Oil Terminal, accompanied by HM King Olav of Norway and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh, the Royal party also took a walk in Lerwick, stopping to talk with crew members aboard the Arun... - View image in PDF
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Municipal Life Assurance Ltd
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Arun Is a Prototype 52-Foot Fully Self-Righting Life-Boat Built to Satisfy the Need for a Faster Design the Second Prototype Will Have Reduced Free-Board Amidships
Arun is a prototype 52-foot fully self-righting life-boat, built to satisfy the need for a faster design. The second prototype will have reduced free-board amidships.. - View image in PDF
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