Brighton lifeboat station I read with interest the reference in the summer issue of THE LIFEBOAT to the fact that Brighton lifeboat station was marking its own 160th anniversary in 1984 as well as that of the...
Category: Correspondence
AT 4.10 in the morning of March 23rd, the coastguard rang up Fowey life-boat station to say that he could see signals of distress in Par Bay, and thirty minutes later the reserve motor lifeboat, The Brothers, put out. A whole gale was...
Category: Services
Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent, presenting the silver medal to Coxswain J. Nicolson, of Aith, for his part in the rescue of the crew of 12 of the trawler Juniper on 19th February, 1967.. - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
ON Friday evening, the 29th of November, 1830, the St. George, a first-class steamer, commanded by Lieut. TUDOR, R.N., arrived at Douglas, Isle of Man, with the mail from Liverpool, and anchored in the bay. The night was stormy, with heavy...
Category: Services
Exmouth Helmsman Roger Jackson thought he would never launch a lifeboat again. But now four young men owe him their lives
Exmouth is a popular seaside destination but on the afternoon of 23...
Category: Articles
MILLION, CORNWALL.—The Institution has formed a life-boat establishment at Mullion Cove, several wrecks, with loss of life, haying recently occurred in the locality.
The boat is 33 feet long, and rows 10 oars double-banked...
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The Norwood and district branch of the R.N.L.I, launched in August the first issue of their newsletter Lifelines.
The newsletter contains the first of a series of articles on gold medal rescues, the inaugural one being an...
Category: Branches
CLOVELLY, DEVON.—During a thick fog, a strong W.S.W. breeze, and a rough sea on the night of the 16th February, the s.s. AMI, of Bilbao, stranded about two and a half miles to the westward of Clovelly and the crew took to the ship's...
Category: Services
BEMBRIDGE, ISLE OF WIGHT.—The new Life-boat Queen Victoria, sent by the ROYAL NATIONAL LIFE-BOAT INSTITUTION to Bembridge, and named after Her Majesty THE QUEEN by H.E.H. the Duchess of EDINBURGH, on the 25th of July last, is a beautiful...
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The following figures show the general form, the nature of the fittings and air-chambers of one of these boats, 33 feet in length and 8 feet in breadth. In figs. 1 and 2, the elevation and deck plans, the general exterior form of the boat is...
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