LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
Rubbish Recovered from the Bottom of the River Cam Raised £500 In Sponsorship Half of Which Was Donated to the Rnli; the Sub Aqua Junk Hunters Were Members of Cambridge University's
Rubbish recovered from the bottom of the River Cam raised £500 in sponsorship, half of which was donated to the RNLI; the sub aqua junk hunters were members of Cambridge University's Underwater Exploration Group whose haul included... - View image in PDF
Category: Photographs
Life-Boat Broadcasts In 1950
THE Life-boat Service was on the air a number of times in 1950, both in broadcasts and in television.
In the spring the B.R.C. gave, in the European Service, a series of six broad- casts, in English and seven or eight other...
Category: Articles
The Cooperative Bank
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Category: Advertisement
The Life-Boat Service In Japan
THE Imperial Japanese Society for Saving Life from Shipwreck (Dainippon Teikoku Suinam Kiusai Kwai) was established in 1879, but was not incorporated by Imperial Charter until 1899. At the present time the Society has 17 stations on the...
Category: Articles
Services of the Life-Boats of the Royal National Life-Boat Institution
EEDCAB.—The Life-boat Brothers was launched for exercise at 2.15 P.M. on the 23rd June, 1892, in a moderate gale from the N. by E. and a rough sea, and, while under sail, the coble Wild Hose, of Eedcar, was seen, about two miles to leeward,...
Category: Services
The "Princess Victoria" Life-Boat Tractor
IT is now six years since the first experiments were made with Motor Caterpillar Tractors for launching Lifeboats off flat beaches. Tractors have been placed at a number of Stations, and although the type used has not been suitable for...
Category: Inaugurations
General Index
ANNUAL REPORT . . . . 337 r e~P° Balance Sheet 352 T 'f w? Box Collections . - - *?& -kiie-po Branch Contributions Committee ol Managem General Contributions Income and Expenditui Legacies and Legacy Fo Life-Belt, Description o...
Category: Index
The Former Royal Air Force Rescue Launch Golden Gremlin
OLD RESCUE LAUNCH RESCUED Torbay, Devon.—At 12.25 in the afternoon of the 16th of March, 1947, the Berry Head coastguard reported that a message had been received from the Torquay police that a resident had seen a small vessel of a naval...
Stuck fast, then footloose
Hartlepool crew battled to save a 16-year-old boy stuck waist-deep in sand with a rapidly rising tide on 30 September 2011. The boy had got his foot caught when helping two younger members of his family from the water. The crew used a hose...
Category: Articles
Frank Shaw, of North Shields
On the 20th Oct., 1869, the ship Frank Shaw, of North Shields, was totally wrecked, during a very heavy gale of wind, on the Goodwin Sands. She had sought shelter in the Downs, but was compelled .to slip her cable and try fresh anchorage off...