LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Old Age and the Life-Boat Service. Helpers of 79, 86, 94, 98 and 102
REFERENCE has been made before in The Life-boat to the way in which old age continues to help the life-boats.
There are five more very touching examples of such service.
A Croydon lady 79 years old has...
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An Aircraft
Buckie, Banffshire. At 1.55 on the afternoon of the 13th of January, 1959,a message was received from the coast- guard that an aircraft had crashed three quarters of a mile north of Scaur Nose Head. At 2.5 the life-boat Glencoe, Glasgow was...
The Fundraisers
Some w a y s of f i l l i n g t he CO f f e r s . . . A clean sweep! The Royal Burgh of Cullen ladies lifeboat guild, established in May 1990, recently held a tombola evening which raised £700. The village of Cullen in north east...
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Life-Boat Essay Competition, 1930. Presentation of Prizes In the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts
Presentation of Prizes in the Greater London and South-Eastern Districts.
AT the Caxton Hall, Westminster, on the 20th October, the Mayor of West- minster (Captain J. F. C. Bennett) pre- sided at the presentation of the...
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The Gold Standard
Even on what could be considered a 'routine' service lifeboat crews can face hazardous conditions and often considerable risk. Imagine then the types of service which warrant special recognition, and consider the acts of bravery...
Category: Medals
Trial, of Poole
On the night of the 3rd May, or rather at 1 A.M. on the 4th, a very gallant service was rendered by the crew of the Caistor life-boat, in rescuing, under circumstances of much danger, the crew of the schooner Trial, of Poole, 7 in number. On...
Services of the Life-Boats of the National Life-Boat Institution from the 1st March to the 30th June 1879
BROADSTAIRS.—On the 2nd March, in reply to signal guns from the Gull Light- ship the Samuel Morrison Collins Life-boat proceeded to the Goodwin Sands and found the three-masted schooner Ocean Queen, of Plymouth, ashore on the E. part of the...
Category: Services
Sketch of the Progress Made In the Construction of Coast Life-Boats. 1795—1900. No. 1
To review the progress made in the Life-boats used on the Coast of Great Britain between the years 1785 and 1900 would be practically to go into the whole history of Life-boat construction, but it is intended in this article only to touch...
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There they are, boy. They were heroes
Seventy years ago, St Ives in Cornwall lost seven men to the sea. Their lives are some of the many celebrated by the new RNLI memorial sculpture in Poole
Present-day St Ives Coxswain Tommy Cocking (53) is the great...
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TRAPPED BY THE TIDE
Two walkers and their dog get caught between rising seawater and 30m cliffs
Christine and Mollie stepped off the bus at Tregantle in Cornwall in late September for a day’s walking. The 25 miles between Cremyll and Polperro...
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