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The Life-Boat Station

Date: May 1896

Volume: 16

Issue: 180

THE following brief description and diagrams illustrative of a complete Life-boat Establishment, including the House for the protection of the boat, will serve to convey an idea of the general character of one of the 303 Life-boat Stations...

Category: Articles

The Longstone Lighthouse

Date: November 1900

Volume: 17

Issue: 198

NORTH SUNDERLAND, NORTHUMBERLA.

ND.—On the 19th February during heavy gale from the S.E., the Coxswain the Life-boat Thomas Bewick received message from the Trinity boatman requesting that the Life-boat might be sent to the...

Production Prototype of the Rnli's Proposed Fast Carriage-Launched Lifeboat

Date: Summer 1987

Volume: 50

Issue: 501

Pictured here, the production prototype of the RNLI's proposed fast carriage-launched lifeboat is currently undergoing extensive technical and operational trials, as part of its continuing evaluation. It is anticipated that the trials... - View image in PDF

Category: Photographs

An Admiralty Motor Fishing Vessel

Date: 1945

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1945

SEPTEMBER 23RD. - NEW BRIGHTON, CHESHIRE. A man had been washed overboard from an Admiralty motor fishing vessel, but the life-boat could not find him. His body came ashore later. - Rewards, £10 5s..

The Winter Gales

Date: March 1946

Volume: War Years

Issue: War Bulletin 23

During the five winter months, from October to February, life-boats were launched 241 times and rescued 314 lives, an average of 63 lives a month..

Category: Articles

Verconella

Date: December 1965

Volume: 38

Issue: 414

INJURED MAN ON TANKER Penlee, Cornwall. At midnight on 28th August, 1965, the honorary secretary notified the coxswain that the tanker Verconella was making for Mounts Bay with a badly injured man on board.

Arrangements...

Small Ads

Date: Autumn 1997

Volume: 56

Issue: 542

CRUISE THROUGH THE COUNTRYSIDE Aboard our owner operated Hole! Narrowboats on the canals and rivers of England ana Wales. Choose from 21 different routes. Enjoy line food, walking.

car© and comfort. Single/twin/double...

Category: Advertisement

Van Brakel

Date: Winter 1951

Volume: 33

Issue: 357

Boulmer, Northumberland.—At 4.50 in the morning, on the 26th of January, 1951, the coastguard telephoned that a ship was aground on the north side of the entrance to Boulmer Haven.

She was sounding her siren. At 5.15 the...

Means of Saving Life

Date: March 1852

Volume: 01

Issue: 01

The extent of the means for saving life at present is comprised in the following meagre statement, which we copy from the Northumberland Report*:— " In Scotland, with a seaboard of 1,500 miles, there are eight life-boats: at...

Category: Articles

The Hoylake Motor Life-Boat

Date: 1944

Volume: War Years

Issue: 1944

JULY 10TH. - LYTHAM-ST. ANNES, LANCASHIRE.

While on her way to a shipyard at Freckleton the Hoylake motor life-boat was delayed by an engine breakdown. She was due off Lytham at three in the afternoon, but did not arrive...