LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Life-Saving on the Shannon continued from page 6
An earlier operation involving both launches was in I960 when an Alitalia DC-7C crashed seconds after take-oft" from Shannon Airport with 52 people aboard. It transpired that the aircraft failed to gain altitude after lifting off the...
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News from the Branches. April 1st to June 30th
Greater London.
CARSHALTOX (SURREY).—Whist Drive.
CRANFORD (MIDDLESEX). — Whist Drive.
ELSTREE (HERTFORDSHIRE). —• On 28th June a Garden Party given by Sir Trevor and Lady Dawson at...
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The Ex-German Steamer Walter L. M. Russ
JULY 16TH. - ANGLE, PEMBROKESHIRE.
At 11.10 in the morning the Tenby coastguard telephoned that the naval authorities at Milford Haven had reported a vessel ashore on Grassholm Island and in need of help. It had been...
(6)—The Walton-On-Naze Life-Boat, the 'Edian Courtauld', at Her Moorings Off Walton Pier Early One Winter's Morning.
(6)—The Walton-on-Naze life-boat, the 'Edian Courtauld', at her moorings off Walton pier early one winter's morning.. - View image in PDF
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The Draw for the Burseldon Bug Sailing Dinghy Raffle Was Made By Ernie Wise Photograph By Courtesy of David Trotter
The draw for the Burseldon Bug sailing dinghy raffle was made by Ernie Wise. - View image in PDF
photograph by courtesy of David Trotter. - View image in PDF
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Life-Boat Families. The Stantons and Stephensons of Boulmer, Northumberland
By Hugh Stephenson, Honorary Secretary of the Boulmer Branch, and a member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle-on-Tyne.
THERE are thirty-four houses in the village of Boulmer. Nine are occupied by Stephensons and...
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The Children of High Bank Nursery School Swinton Manchester
The children of High Bank Nursery School, Swinton, Manchester, and their parents raised £293.50 for the RNLI in memory of their late head teacher, Miss Constance M.
Hardman; while the children pile into their... - View image in PDF
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Resolutions Passed at the Annual Meeting for 1882
THE RIGHT HON. THE LORD MAYOR OF LONDON IN THE CHAIR.
1.—Moved by the CHAIRMAN :— 1.—That the following Noblemen and Gentlemen be the Officers of the Institution for the current year:— (Vide next page for this list.)...
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Two Motor Life-Boats In the December Gales
THE gales at the end of December reached their worst on the 27th, on the which day ten launches took place round the coast, From the Isle of Wight it was reported that "the damage ashore was not so great as in November, but at sea condi...
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A Ship's Doctor's Gratitude. The Story of a Whitby Rescue
The Story of a Whitby Rescue.
[The following story of a family's gratitude to the Life-boat Service appeared in the " Yorkshire Evening Post " on 5th September last, from the paper's special...
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