LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
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Margate, Kent.—At 7.27 on the even- ing of the 29th of August, 1953, the coastguard rang up to say that three men in a boat were in difficulties off Foreness Point and were drifting out to sea. At 7.30 the life-boat North Foreland, Civil...
IRB Launches. Rescues by IRBs in January were carried out by the following stations
NORTH-WEST DISTRICT Flint - At 10.44 a.m. on 25th January, 1967, news was received that someone was in distress in the river Dee. The IRB was launched at 10.52 in a calm sea and proceeded up river. She found a wild- fowler who had...
Category: Services
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Category: Advertisement
A Life-Boat Film In Australia
IN the Yarmouth Mercury on 5th March last, under the heading " Yarmouth and Gorleston Motor Life-boat's Fame in Australia," a letter was published "which had been received by a Gorleston man from his son in Australia. He...
Category: Articles
In Memory of Captain C C Lowry
In memory of Captain C. C. Lowry, past chairman of Appledore station branch, a glass topped table was made to display lifeboat stamps of the world. The stamps were collected and the table made by staff and inmates of HM Prison, Dartmoor..<... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
The Life-Boatman's Sigh In the Tempest
JESU bless oar slender boat, By the torrent swept along; Loud its threatening—let them not Drown the music of a song Breathed Thy mercy to implore, Where these troubled waters roar! Guide our bark among the waves; Through the surf our...
Category: Poetry
£69,494 from Life-Boat Days In 1940.
Never has there been such a generous response by the public to the appeal of life-boat flag days as in 1940. The number of branches which held flag days was 771, and 475 of them raised larger sums than ever before. The number of people who...
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Chart Shewing the Lives Lost By Drowning In Inland Waters In England & Wales During the Year 1877
CHART SHEWING THE LIVES LOST BY DROWNING IN INLAND WATERS IN ENGLAND & WALES DURING THE YEAR 1877.
Category: Charts
A Corner In Cumbria: Workington Silloth and St.Bees Three Lifeboat Stations on the Solway Firth and Its Southern Approaches
THREE CUMBRIAN STATIONS, St BeeS, Workington and Silloth, complementing each other, are the guardians of the southern approaches to the Firth of Solway and of the firth itself, just as Kirkcudbright and Kippford guard the waters to the north...
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Life-Boat Day Results
WE give below a list of the results, so far received, of Life-boat Days which city of London have been held during the Branch financial year which ended on the 30th September. With regard to the London list it should be added that a Day was...
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